March 28, 2024
Columns

Castles in the air: North Korea’s delusional economic “strategy”

Juche science, halting reform, and investment from – Russia? You jest

I don’t know Cho Yun-yong. But I’m ever so jealous of her. And I bet every other DPRK watcher is too.

A South Korean journalist based in Japan, Ms. Cho somehow got her hands on Pyongyang gold. Not literally, but meaning one of the many official documents that any normal country would publish – but which North Korea prefers to keep secret.

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