The unification ministry stated Friday it has printed the English model of its report on North Korea’s financial and social scenario in a bid to assist the worldwide group higher perceive evolving modifications within the North’s society.
In February, the ministry launched the 280-page report on North Korea’s financial and social scenario for the primary time. The report relies on in-depth interviews with 6,351 North Korean defectors carried out between 2013 and 2022.
The report confirmed extra North Koreans voiced skepticism about whether or not the Kim Jong-un household’s hereditary energy succession is respectable. It additionally outlined varied modifications in North Korean society, together with the collapse of the meals rationing system and a rise in experiences of accessing outdoors info.
“With the publication of the English model, we hope that the worldwide group can perceive the North Korean regime and the truth going through North Koreans and joint efforts to enhance the scenario,” the ministry stated.
The exhausting copy of the English report will probably be distributed to overseas diplomatic missions in South Korea, worldwide organizations, nongovernment organizations and associated specialists. Its PDF model has been uploaded on the web site of the unification ministry (www.unikorea.go.kr/eng_unikorea/information/Publications/nk_realities). (Yonhap)