North Korea's Economic Changes Post-Pandemic

At night, North Korea is the dark patch

between two economic powerhouses, China and South Korea.

But over recent years, someone appears to have found

the dimmer switch and been turning it up.

There has been a noticeable improvement

in Pyongyang and some other major cities.

Starting in 2022 to now,

we've seen a huge influx of revenue to the regime,

almost 60% increase in the foreign currency that

the regime has access to in the highest years post-pandemic

compared to their pre-sanctioned levels.

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