North Korea runs short of ingredients for winter kimchi supplies

Fears for country's national dish after cabbage harvests damaged by drought and subsequent floods. Daily NK reports

North Korean households are facing a winter without their traditional supply of kimchi after a year in which droughts and then floods have affected vegetable harvests.

As the kimjang season begins, when the fermented cabbage dish is made to last families though the winter, market prices for radishes and cabbages are escalating. Even ingredients such as chillies, garlic, onions and salt used for seasoning are in short supply, say sources inside the country.