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North Korea's Unreported Economic Figures

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Jul 17, 2012
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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 …

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