Analysis What to know about the North Korean towns chosen for 2025 development push‘20x10’ project shaping up different than advertised, with most of the 22 counties already hosting major facilities ![]() North Korea has officially named 22 towns that will receive central government support to build a few small factories this year under leader Kim Jong Un’s “20×10” policy, which aims to fix the country’s “backward” economy and chronic income inequality. NK Pro analysis shows that most of the towns host important military bases or factories, instead of being the poorest areas in the country that Kim has promised to support first. Authorities have also slowed the project down despite Kim’s vow last summer to add a hospital, grain management station and “leisure complex” to © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |