Choco Pies facts
While investigating facts about Choco Pies North Korea and Choco Pies Banned In North Korea, I found out little known, but curios details like:
North Korea is obsessed with Choco Pies from S Korea. There's a black market for them, and factories once used them to pay worker bonuses. In 2014, S Korean activists sent 10K pies to NK with helium balloons. After an injured NK defector crossed the DMZ in 2017, he was given a lifetime supply.
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North Korea had a Choco Pie black market, where the snack cake cost up to 9.50 USD per pie
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After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons
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South Korea paid North Korean workers at the cooperative Kaesong Industrial Complex up to 20 Choco Pies, a Korean moon pie snack equivalent to the American Twinkie in terms of popularity, per day as part of their wage.
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After North Korea cut off the supply of Choco Pies, South Korean activists launched them into North Korea by balloon.
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Choco Pie (a Korean version of moon cake) could be worth up to $23 in the North Korean black market
