Sentence examples for public distribution system from inspiring English sources

From 2008, efforts accelerated to revive the public distribution system and clamp down on markets.

Refiners must sell 40% of their output to the public distribution system at a loss.

The food guaranteed through the public distribution system is not enough to meet the demand.

Under Kim Il-sung this was manageable because the elderly also had access to the state's public distribution system.

Provisions of the bill dealing with food grain entitlements under the public distribution system have grabbed most of the attention.

Since the collapse of the public distribution system in the mid-90s, North Koreans have been forced to fend for themselves.

Households riding out the vagaries of harvests and the public-distribution system need plenty too.

When the public-distribution system was cut off, people tapped their deepest wells of creativity to feed themselves.

During the holidays, using the limited ingredients from the public-distribution system, she would make twigim, batter-fried vegetables that were light and crisp.

However, the public-distribution system, which was introduced in the Communist North shortly after the Korean peninsula was divided, in 1945, did supply a mixture of grains in amounts that were carefully allotted in accordance with rank and work status.

After 1995, Chongjin residents could get rice only if they had cash to buy it on the black market, and even then it was expensive about fifty won per kilo, six hundred times what rice had cost through the public-distribution system, when it was available.