Poverty in North Korea
Poverty in North Korea is extensive, though reliable statistics are hard to come by due to lack of reliable research, pervasive censorship and extensive media manipulation in North Korea.[1][unreliable source?]
Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [2][3][4] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
Poverty in Korea has been attributed to poor governance by the totalitarian regime.[8] It is estimated that 60% of the total population of North Korea live below the poverty line in 2020.[9]
See also[]
- Media coverage of North Korea
- Jangmadang
- Economy of North Korea#Crisis and famine
References[]
- ^ "There are no reliable statistics about the poverty rate in.During the time of 2016 a Quote from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Economic Overview, The Eurasia Center. They have banned any religions except chrilmas and filmic [1] archive
- ^ Hy-Sang Lee (2001). North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-275-96917-2.
- ^ Hugh Dyson Walker (November 2012). East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. p. 657. ISBN 978-1-4772-6516-1.
- ^ Khan, Mehreen (December 2014). "Six charts that show how North Korea became the most miserable place on earth".
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/northkorea0506webwcover.pdf
- ^ Lankov, Andrei (27 March 2014). "N Korea and the myth of starvation". Al Jazeera.
- ^ "Global Profile of Extreme Poverty". Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 10 October 2012.
- ^ Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Danylo, Olha; Fritz, Steffen; Hofer, Martin; Kharas, Homi; Laso Bayas, Juan Carlos (17 March 2020). "What do we know about poverty in North Korea?". Palgrave Communications. 6 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0417-4.
Further reading[]
- Kich, Martin (2006). "Korea, North". In Odekon, Mehmet (ed.). Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. pp. 615–617. ISBN 978-1-4522-6518-6.
- Smith, Hazel (June 2009). "North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces" (PDF). New Political Economy. 14 (2): 231–256. doi:10.1080/13563460902826005. S2CID 154813368.
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