North Korean leader’s touchy gift has no radiation contamination, the South Korean presidential palace declared more than a month after the Kim Jong-un generously sent two tons of expensive pine mushrooms to the south.
Kim’s delicacy had gone through essential “radiation tests” required for food ingredients and undergone plant quarantine, the Blue House assured South Koreans on Wednesday, as cited by Yonhap.
The procedure revealed that the mushrooms, which are considered akin to truffles and valued up to $1.83 million, contain levels of radiation standard for foods (0.034 μsv) and “far lower” than the permissible level set by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Kim sent the “peace token” to his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in, following their third meeting in Pyongyang in September. Back then, the North Korean leader announced he would let international monitors witness the final dismantling of the nation’s missile and rocket engine test site.
