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North Korea marketization
![North Korea’s Market Dilemma: Balancing Control and Revenue Generation North Korea’s Market Dilemma: Balancing Control and Revenue Generation](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-26-131526.jpg)
North Korea’s Market Dilemma: Balancing Control and Revenue Generation
By Lee Sang Yong
While markets remain regulated to varying degrees across regions, authorities appear focused on stimulating rather than shutting them down, likely as a means to raise funds.
![Behind North Korea’s Efforts to Monopolize Its Food Supply Behind North Korea’s Efforts to Monopolize Its Food Supply](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-11-10-15.jpg)
Behind North Korea’s Efforts to Monopolize Its Food Supply
By Robert Lauler
Pyongyang has always had a complicated relationship with markets, but is the government really trying to prevent all private food sales?
![The Subversive Influence of Women in North Korea The Subversive Influence of Women in North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-03-03-144459.jpg)
The Subversive Influence of Women in North Korea
By Emily Charley
Despite the regime’s deeply pervasive misogyny, North Korean women are making strides in the country's political and social spheres.
![Breaking Down North Korea’s COVID Strategy Breaking Down North Korea’s COVID Strategy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-05-12-124059.jpg)
Breaking Down North Korea’s COVID Strategy
By Emma Nymoen
The Kim Jong Un regime’s COVID-19 policies are enabling the government to re-indoctrinate a nation of people.
![Entrepreneurship, Business, and Economic Reform in North Korea Entrepreneurship, Business, and Economic Reform in North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-02-04-5.jpg)
Entrepreneurship, Business, and Economic Reform in North Korea
By Jongsoo Lee
An interview with Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange.
![The North Korean Economy Under Sanctions and COVID-19 The North Korean Economy Under Sanctions and COVID-19](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-40554436154_a24a83ee9e_k.jpg)
The North Korean Economy Under Sanctions and COVID-19
By 38 North / Bradley O. Babson
Amid stalled diplomacy and a global pandemic, North Korea is signalling major adjustments in its economic policies and management practices.
![At Trump-Kim 2.0, Don’t Forget North Korea’s Markets At Trump-Kim 2.0, Don’t Forget North Korea’s Markets](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-40554436154_a24a83ee9e_k.jpg)
At Trump-Kim 2.0, Don’t Forget North Korea’s Markets
By John Dale Grover
Continued economic opening would be a boon for the North Korean people. The US should push Kim in that direction.
![All Politics Is Local in North Korea, Too All Politics Is Local in North Korea, Too](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-40554442274_759ac400d1_k.jpg)
All Politics Is Local in North Korea, Too
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
Domestic politics are a more natural explanations for Pyongyang's political moves, like the recently announced amnesty.
![Is There Still Room for Sanctions to Succeed in North Korea? Is There Still Room for Sanctions to Succeed in North Korea?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-09-06_22-58-17.jpg)
Is There Still Room for Sanctions to Succeed in North Korea?
By Qiheng Chen
North Korean marketization may lend hope for sanctions to work, if the U.S. and China can coordinate.
![Will Marketization Bring Down the North Korean Regime? Will Marketization Bring Down the North Korean Regime?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-2604015888_c6feee8ce1_b.jpg)
Will Marketization Bring Down the North Korean Regime?
By Jonathan Corrado
The Kim regime has turned its new economic elites into an increasingly important source of revenue.
![The Case for Engaging North Korea The Case for Engaging North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-04-12_13-23-29.jpg)
The Case for Engaging North Korea
By Joseph Yi, Byeonggeun Heo, and Junbeom Bahk
The best path to long-term stability is encouraging economic reform and growth in the DPRK.
![The (Market) Forces of History in North Korea The (Market) Forces of History in North Korea](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-01-30_20-09-17.jpg)
The (Market) Forces of History in North Korea
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
Why more freedom in North Korea’s markets might not be bad news for the regime
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