North Korea: Leader Kim Makes Pyongyang Shine
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Bitter poverty meets smartphone noise: North Korea has been growing again for more than three years after a long crisis – financed by Russia's Ukraine war, cryptodies and prison work.
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = Japan's Ministry of Defense announced on the 12th that an object possibly a ballistic missile was launched from North Korea.
North Korea was plagued by crisis and famine. Now Kim Jong-Un is raking in billions and the country's revenues have skyrocketed. Behind the turnaround is Putin's war – which has become an unexpected economic jackpot for the dictatorship.
According to Kyiv, the Russians can no longer sustain the war against Ukraine without reinforcements from North Korea. Vladimir Putin thus clearly seems to benefit from his rogue alliance with Pyongyang, but how does Kim Jong-un himself profit from the cooperation with Moscow?
Extraordinary revenues, especially from war aid for Russia, strengthen the power of autocrat Kim and give small parts of the population an economic boom.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026.- Why aren't the sanctions stopping North Korea? According to an analysis by Bloomberg Economics, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earned as much as $22 billion in foreign revenues between 2022 and 2025. This represents a 400% increase in foreign revenues.
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