Rare admission reveals economic strain in North Korea

Pyongyang recently made a rare acknowledgement of failure to achieve targets and brought forward a new economic plan

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  • Coronavirus
  • Reorganisation
  • Floods
  • Congress brought forward
  • Real reform?
  • Secrecy
  • Control
  • Militarism

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