Poverty in North Korea

Poverty in North Korea

Poverty in North Korea is believed to be extensive, though reliable statistics are hard to come by due to lack of reliable research, pervasive censorship and extensive media manipulation in North Korea .

Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [1][2][3] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s.[4] A 2006 report suggests that North Korea requires an estimated 5.3m tonnes of grain per year while harvesting only an estimated 4.5m tonnes, and thus relies on foreign aid to overcome the deficit.[5] A more recent report in 2014 suggests that starvation is now a myth but highlights inequalities in wealth that are similar to other countries of the world.[6]

Poverty in Korea has been attributed to poor governance by the totalitarian regime.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hy-Sang Lee (2001). North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-275-96917-2.
  2. ↑ Hugh Dyson Walker (November 2012). East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. p. 657. ISBN 978-1-4772-6516-1.
  3. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11260650/Six-charts-that-show-how-North-Korea-became-the-most-miserable-place-on-earth.html
  4. ↑ Professor Tae-Hwan Kwak; Professor Seung-Ho Joo (28 March 2014). North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-4724-1786-2.
  5. ↑ https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/northkorea0506webwcover.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/03/n-korea-myth-starvation-2014319124439924471.html
  7. ↑ "North Korea is the quintessential case of despotic rule leading to extreme poverty despite otherwise favorable economic potential. Quote from "Global Profile of Extreme Poverty ", Sustainable Development Solutions Network,

Further reading

  • Kich, Martin (2006). "Korea, North". In Odekon, Mehmet. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. pp. 615–617. ISBN 978-1-4522-6518-6.
  • Smith, Hazel (2009). "North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces". New Political Economy. 14 (2): 231–256. doi:10.1080/13563460902826005. ISSN 1356-3467.


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