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Natalia Matveeva
Natalia Matveeva holds a Ph.D. in modern Korean history from the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and is a research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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The historical roots of North Korea’s notoriously-unreliable statistics
From grain cultivation to heavy industry, manipulation of data made numbers larger than reality
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable,” as Mark Twain once said.
It is well-known that North Korea for the last fifty or so years has not been forthcoming with its statistical data, and there have been many discussions about the reliability of the data that is being provided by the state in recent decades.
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