Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, striking a delicate balance between sustaining economic activity and safeguarding public health has become a crucial concern. The border closures for COVID-19 prevention have further intensified concerns for North Korea, whi
North Korea, one of the world's most centrally directed and least open economies, faces chronic economic problems. Industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of decades of mismanagement, underinvestment, shortages of spare parts, and poor maintenance. Corruption and resource misalloc...
North Korea (NK, undeveloped) and its neighbors (SK, South Korea, developed; China, developing) represent three economic levels that provide us with examples of how to examine climatic risk and quantify the contribution of social resilience to rice production. Our data-driven estimates show that ...
Today’s new projects need more experienced infrastructures, which increases the costs of starting projects, creates higher operating costs, and leads to the production of more expensive metals—an investment North Korea cannot afford. The Jongju site, in North Korea, is home to nearly 216.2 ...
Lee B-K, Lee HK, Jun N-Y (2006) Analysis of regional and temporal characteristics of PM10 during an Asian dust episode in Korea. Chemosphere 63(7):1106–1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.09.001 Article CAS Google Scholar Li Y, Chen Q, Zhao H, Wang L, Tao R (2015...
The research objective of this thesis is to analyze the major factors in causing Kim Jong-il's regime to change, and based on such analysis, to forecast what the change of North Korea in connection with possible state of great anxiety and confusion will be in the future. In North Korea,...
As we argue, the failure of financial sanctions to exert any discernible macroeconomic pressure on the North Korea economy is largely a result of the manner in which they have encouraged the use of cash and barter in trade settlement as well as the persistence of certain forms of smuggling. ...
Discussing North Korea’s propaganda after the war ended, Mushtare goes on to say: Years of anti-U.S. indoctrination themes have bred a hostile view of the people of the United States in successive North Korean generations. Anti-Americanism spans the whole of the North Korean education system...
North Korea’s food situation has made a peculiar and sad journey over the past few years. During Kim Jong-un’s first few years in power, agricultural production increased for the most part, a pattern that began already under Kim Jong-il. The food situation overall continued to seem stabil...
North Korea—the world's most totalitarian state—is another prominent example of a socialist economy. Like Cuba, North Korea has an almost entirely state-controlled economy, with similar social programs to those of Cuba. There is no stock exchange in North Korea, either. Around mid-197...