The ban on coal imports from North Korea, for example, may well have boosted certain industries, as this blog has covered in the past. Because exports have dwindled drastically, the price at which North Korean coal can sell – domestically as well as internationally – gets much, much lower...
North Korea (NK) and its neighbours, South Korea and China, represent three economic levels that provide us with examples for examining climatic risk and quantifying the contribution of social resilience to rice production. Here our data-driven estimates show that climatic factors determined rice ...
Today, the facility accommodates the Departments of Primary Industries and Natural Resources. Banana and papaya are the major tree fruits under considerable research, with increasing effort into rambutan, mangosteen, and durian research. Cacao research has also been initiated recently....
South KoreaNorth Korea Economy - overview After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century's most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected, high-technology society within decades. In the 1960s, GDP per ...
North Korea plans to select additional laborers to send to Russian-occupied regions of eastern Ukraine. In fact, Pyongyang plans to send about 300 people, with the primary goal being to earn foreign currency. A source in North Korea told Daily NK on Monday that the country plans to start th...
But North Korea has proved resourceful in other areas, including offensive cyber warfare. “The primary organization responsible for computer warfare in North Korea is Bureau 121, which fielded at least 1,000 elite hackers in 2010 who focused on other countries’ computer systems. This number is ...
In the late 1900s, North Korea began adopting the motto “Strong and prosperous nation”, which focuses on building a strong military, Kim Jong Il’s primary base of power, and a booming economy. North Korea established a free-trade zone in Rason in the 1900s to promote economic growth ...
North Korea is notorious for its extensive and illicit export of ballistic missiles and related technology. Iran and North Korea (officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK) are the foremost destabilizing actors in their resp
Tianjin is one of the first Chinese cities to come in contact with modern western civilizations. Thanks to the economic radiation and impact of Tianjin, unprecedented progress was made in the modernization and opening-up of various industries in northern China, which greatly improved the ...
A pair of Joint Technical Alerts from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have revealed more details on cyberattacks, allegedly coming from North Korea.