Asia Sentinel

Asia Sentinel

North Korea's Unreported Economic Figures

Our Correspondent
Jul 17, 2012
∙ Paid
Share

The North Korean economy is very much bigger than it appears when estimates are derived from the scant official statistics available from Pyongyang, according to a just-published report by the Samsung Economic Research Institute. But that’s not saying much.

The official South Korean agency Statistics Korea recently put the North’s gross domestic product …

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Asia Sentinel
Publisher Privacy
Substack
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture