North Korea's economy defies easy categorization \u2014 a nominally socialist system hollowed out by decades of mismanagement and sanctions, sustained by a sprawling informal market economy that the regime alternately tolerates and suppresses. Daily NK covers the North Korea economy through ground-level price tracking, foreign currency monitoring, reporting on economic policy directives, and analysis of how ordinary North Koreans navigate an environment of chronic scarcity and institutional dysfunction. Our market data \u2014 collected through a network of in-country sources \u2014 provides economic intelligence on the DPRK unavailable anywhere else in English.<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/tag\/economy\/","name":"economy","slug":"economy","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n