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North Korea's foreign trade deteriorated in the 1990s. After hitting the bottom of $1.4 billion in 1998, it recovered slightly. North Korea's trade total in 2002 was $2.7 billion: only about 50% of $5.2 billion in 1988, even in nominal US dollars. These figures exclude intra-Korean trade, deemed internal, which rose in 2002 to $641 million.
Rodong Sinmun office in Pyongyang. Rodong Sinmun (IPA: [ɾo.doŋ ɕin.mun]; Korean: 로동신문; lit. labor news) is a North Korean newspaper that serves as the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [2] [3] [4] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s. [5] A 2006 report suggests that North Korea required an estimated 5.3m tonnes of grain per year while harvesting only an estimated 4.5m tonnes, and thus relies on foreign aid ...
In some ways, North Korea is a nation like many others; it is also definitively its own thing, sometimes strikingly different from the rest of the world. For six years until his death in 2019 ...
The South Korean foreign ministry denounced Hegseth's remarks. According to English-language outlet Yonhap News, the ministry said, "Under the [non-proliferation treaty], North Korea can never be ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea claims that about 800,000 of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation's military to fight against the United States, North Korea's state newspaper ...
Daily NK was the first news organization to obtain and published excerpts from explanatory materials regarding North Korea's "anti-reactionary thought law," which went into effect in late 2021. The explanatory materials were used in a 38 North article regarding North Korea's intensification of its "war against foreign influence."
[3] [6] The festival included performances of North Korean music, as well as displays of North Korean items brought to South Korea by defectors. [3] [6] Defector entrepreneurs also sold goods such as liquor, clothing, North Korean snacks, and dog treats. [6] Panel discussions by defectors were held, as was an exhibition illustrating life in ...