30 percent of North Koreans are reportedly unemployed or underemployed.

According to a special report by the United Nation’s World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization, 30 percent of the North's labor force are either permanently or temporarily unemployed or underemployed.

Low-income laborers earn a monthly average of two-thousand one-hundred won, collective farm workers five hundred to four thousand won, mine and power plant workers five-thousand-two-hundred to twelve thousand won, high-class professional workers, including doctors, engineers and managers three-thousand six-hundred won.

The report said a typical low-income worker spends one-third of his monthly earnings of two-thousand one-hundred won to buy rationed grains and another one-third of his earnings in daily spending. The report said what's left of the monthly earning is only enough to buy two-and-a-half to five kilograms of corn.