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Insurance products promoted to target foreign investment enterprises
Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) North Korea is promoting insurance products targeted at foreign-investment companies with increasing efforts to attract foreign capital through special economic...
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9th Plenary Meeting of 13th SPA Presidium Held
According to KCNA (2016-3-30): The 9th plenary meeting of the 13th Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Wednesday. The plenary meeting...
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Joint conference of officials of party, state, economic and armed forces...
According to KCNA (2017-1-9): A joint conference of officials of the party, state, economic and armed forces organs took place in Pyongyang on Saturday and Sunday to discuss ways for carrying through...
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Kim Jong-un’s 2018 new year address
Below I have posted the economic section of Kim Jong-un’s 2018 new year speech in English and Korean: Comrades, 동지들！ This year we will mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the glorious...
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Kim Jong-un’s speech at the SPA in April 2019
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Posting the speech here in full, from KCNA: Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) — Supreme Leader Kim Jong Unmade the policy speech “On Socialist Construction and the Internal and...
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Rodong Sinmun on state control of economy
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein A short article in Rodong Sinmun from earlier this month, emphasizing the importance of state (specifically cabinet) control over economic management: Important Issues...
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North Korea needs to counter the economic impacts of COVID19, but what can it...
By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Many countries are adopting stimulus measures to counter the economic impacts of the drastic economic slowdown resulting from measures to counter the COVID19 outbreak....
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Politburo meets, but SPA postponed (till following Sunday)
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein The SPA was expected to meet this past Friday. It didn’t. (Update 13/4/: it instead met on the following Sunday.) Instead, the politburo held a meeting to discuss measures...
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North Korea’s 2020 parliamentary session and the budget: the main points
By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein This past Sunday, the 12th of April, the North Korean Supreme People’s Assembly met at Mansudae Assembly Hall, the grand, majestic room where the assembly sits. Out of...
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The North Korean gov’t tightens the screws on foreign trade
By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Over the past year, Daily NK (and primarily its stellar reporter Seulkee Jang) has reported on what seems to be a fairly consistent effort by the North Korean regime to...
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