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America Age > Blog > World > Kim Jong Un bragged that he taste-tested North Korea’s baby formula and ordered improvements, a likely jab at the US shortage
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Kim Jong Un bragged that he taste-tested North Korea’s baby formula and ordered improvements, a likely jab at the US shortage

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets troops who have taken part in the military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) April 29, 2022.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seen in a photo dated April 29, 2022, released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).KCNA via Reuters

  • North Korean media bragged about its baby formula in a bizarre story about leader Kim Jong Un.

  • Kim personally taste-tested the state’s baby formula recipe last September, state media said.

  • The article is a likely jab at the widespread formula shortages faced in the USA.

Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the perfection of North Korea’s baby formula recipe, state media said, in what is likely a swipe at shortages of formula in the US.

Around 4 a.m. on September 15, 2021, a senior Pyongyang official got a phone call from Kim Jong Un himself, according to an English translation of a Voice of Korea article via KCNA Watch.

KCNA Watch is a South Korea-based outlet that monitors and translates North Korean media.

The North Korean leader had tasted a trial batch of “diluted dry milk” for children and “pointed out the shortcomings one by one” to the official, Voice of Korea reported.

The outlet described Kim as “like a mother who tastes a food for her child first to see if it is too hot and if it is too salty.” Since that phonecall, Pyongyang produced new and improved formula, the outlet reported.

The fawning article came as the US faced a severe shortage of formula that has prompted deep concern in parents, as Insider’s Jane Ridley reported.

A combination of demand for staff, supply chain issues, and widespread product recalls led to the shortage, which particularly affects parents who can’t nurse, and babies whose health issues make them dependent on formula.

The issue has also been politicized. On Friday the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, accused President Joe Biden of prioritizing migrant babies over American ones after Rep. Kat Cammack posted a video to Facebook that said “pallets of baby formula” were being sent to migrant processing centers.

North Korea, a totalitarian state, has no independent media. State-controlled outlets like Voice of Korea and The Pyongyang Times frequently highlight negative news stories from the US — particularly those that drive political rifts — while providing obsequious coverage of Kim’s activities.

The highly secretive state is in the midst of an outbreak of an unnamed “fever” affecting more than 350,000 people, according to state media — which is widely suspected to be COVID-19.

The state publicly reported its first ever COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began on May 12, days before it announced the spread of the reported “fever.”

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