From America's newspaper of record:
ARLINGTON, VA—Calling the effort a dramatic display of the Asian
country’s powerful capabilities, officials from the RAND Corporation
confirmed Wednesday that North Korea has successfully harvested wheat.
“Our most generous estimates projected that they would not produce the
cereal grain for at least another 15 years, but the evidence revealed
that North Korea is far more advanced than expected,”...MORE
HT that is not really a hat tip but rather a reminder we had not visited AFNS in a while, David Keohane's
Further reading post at FT Alphaville.