April 20, 2024
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Scrapping of five-year economic plan signaled in latest North Korean TV blurring

Key slogan of “five-year economic development strategy” also erased on state TV and phased out of print media

Updated at 17:30 KST to alter the translation of "Mallima Generation" to "Mallima Era."

A propaganda poster promoting North Korea’s “five-year economic development strategy” was blurred on state TV this week, NK News has found, in what appears to be the latest sign that the plan may have been officially scrapped.

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