North Korea suffers from some of the highest levels of corruption in the world, according to a report released by the NGO Transparency International on Tuesday.

In findings released as part of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013, which ranks global levels of corruption by correlating surveys of experts and the assessments of institutions, the DPRK received a score of just 8 /100.

This gave North Korea the same score as Afghanistan and Somalia, and ranked it 175 out of the 177 countries surveyed.

Transparency International’s Research Director Finn Heinrich told NK News that North Korea ranked so badly because “the political