SEOUL--North Korea’s economy grew sharply in 2023 after shrinking for three straight years as trade with China increased after COVID-19 pandemic border controls were eased, according to ...

Since the beginning, the country has hidden key facilities ... U.S. goals in three key areas. First, U.S. economic sanctions against North Korea have proved ineffective as long as China continued ...

The North Korean regime managed to stay afloat, but its survival strategy, heavily depending on labor extraction and repression, only further distorted the economy. While markets remain ...

Amid stalled diplomacy and a global pandemic, North Korea is signalling major adjustments in its economic policies and management practices. Continued economic opening would be a boon for the ...

In response, Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation convened a task force to study economic engagement with North ...

“Because of the pandemic and remote work they've had greater success in terms of the revenue-raising activity,” Scott Snyder, CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America, said of North Korea.

Today, North Korea’s secretive dictator oversees an isolated society and command economy, portraying himself as the benevolent protector of a nation under siege from hostile foreign powers.

01:26 More details are found on social networking sites where North Korea watchers gather from around the world. This method of getting to the truth by piecing together public information is ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country ...

North Korea and Russia reached a new agreement for expanding economic cooperation following high-level talks in Pyongyang this week, the North’s state media said Thursday, as they continue to ...

SEOUL--Once a North Korean experiment in limited capitalism, the Rason Special Economic Zone appears to be the epicenter of the isolated country’s growing cooperation with Russia, experts say ...