Against the background of the fall in Russian fertility leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un approved deliveries to Russia aphrodisiacs, according to South Korean news site NK News.
According to his information, under US sanctions and The European Union's North Korean Korea Sobaeksu United Corporation is preparing to export funds to the Russian market to increase potency.
The publication states that according to the Federal Accreditation Service, the Krasnodar company Fares-Kore at the end of November submitted more than a dozen applications for the import of "therapeutic and prophylactic products" from the DPRK. The sender is Sobaeksu, which, according to the UN, is associated with the Ministry of Defense Industry of the DPRK, responsible for Pyongyang's nuclear missile programs.
"Fares-Kore intends to sell a number of North Korean drugs to increase potency under its own brand. Among the declared positions are maca, rapeseed extract, royal jelly, cordyceps, reishi mushrooms and Chinese highlander, traditionally considered aphrodisiacs and tonic components. Other batches mention supplements based on aloe, red yeast rice, motherwort, plum and beta-glucan," NK News points out.
As noted in the article, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that aphrodisiacs are part of folklore rather than evidence-based medicine.