Economics Explained

S1, EP14 "The Pathetic Economy of North Korea"

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North Korea's already struggling economy is shrinking; the centrally-planned economy defaults on debts in 1980 and relies on China and the Soviet Union; after the Soviet Union's collapse, it experiments with small-scale entrepreneurship.

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