https://www.scmp.com/rss/325272/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com While it would be wrong to say the North Korean economy is going like gangbusters, it is surprisingly stable, despite increasingly onerous sanctions. Pyongyang is experiencing a building boom, food prices appear to have stabilised, North Korea is somehow able to fund an annual current accounts deficit with China, and the overall economy even grew 3.9 per cent in 2016, according to the South Korean central bank. This raises the obvious questions of where North Korea’s money is coming from, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112551/how-north-korea-keeps-its-economy-humming-despite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112551/how-north-korea-keeps-its-economy-humming-despite?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Sep 2017 04:31:00 +0000