Editor’s note: This is the second article in a two-part series on North Korea predictions for 2024. The first part can be read here.

Last year saw North Korea finally begin to lift its self-imposed isolation, almost four years after first shutting its border amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

But only a select few foreigners, as well as hundreds of overseas workers who had been stranded abroad, were allowed to enter the country.

Meanwhile, Pyongyang appeared to send more laborers abroad to earn money for the regime, while Kim Jong Un