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Anton Sokolin
Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).
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News North Korean economy contracts for third straight year in 2022: Bank of KoreaSeoul estimates DPRK citizens earned average of $1.1K last year, about 30 times less than counterparts in South North Korea’s economy contracted for the third straight year in 2022, according to a new Bank of Korea (BOK) report, in what appears to be a result of the DPRK’s ongoing COVID-19 border restrictions, international sanctions and the impact of severe weather. The economic decline of 0.2% edged past the 0.1% slump in 2021 but was nowhere near the 4.5% drop recorded in 2020, when North Korea suffered its worst economic downturn since 1997 due to its self-imposed pandemic restrictions, the report released Friday shows. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |