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  Economy of North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
North Korea's faltering economy and the breakdown of trade relations with the countries of the former socialist bloc - especially following the fall of communism in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union - have confronted Pyongyang with difficult policy choices.
North Korea suffers from chronic food shortages, which free market economists attribute to forced collective farming; these shortages were exacerbated by record floods in the summer of 1995 and continued shortages of fertilizer and parts.
North Korea found itself unable to finance its debt, because demand for its exports shrank steadily after the oil crisis of the 1970s, until it became the first communist country to default on its loans from free market countries.
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 North Korea, Map and Flag
North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.
In December 2002, North Korea repudiated a 1994 agreement that shut down its nuclear reactors and expelled UN monitors, further raising fears it would produce nuclear weapons.
North Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions.
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 Korea: Economy
North Korea is especially rich in iron and coal and has some 200 different minerals of economic value.
The fishing waters off Korea are among the best in the world; the long coastline and numerous islands, inlets, and reefs provide excellent fishing grounds, and the presence of both a warm and a cold current attracts a great variety of species.
The Korean economy was shattered by the war of 1950 to 1953.
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KIM's son, the current ruler KIM Jong Il, was officially designated as KIM's future successor in 1980 and assumed a growing political and managerial role until his father's death in 1994, when he assumed full power without opposition.
After decades of economic mismanagement and resource misallocation, the North since the mid-1990s has relied heavily on international food aid to feed its population while continuing to expend resources to maintain an army of about 1 million.
In mid-2003 Pyongyang announced it had completed the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods (to extract weapons-grade plutonium) and was developing a "nuclear deterrent." From August 2003 to June 2004 North Korea participated in six-party talks with the China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States to resolve the stalemate over its nuclear programs.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Korea, North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Japan occupied Korea in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula.
South Korea 28.5%, China 28.4%, Japan 24.7% (2002 est.)
China 39.7%, Thailand 14.6%, Japan 11.2%, Germany 7.6%, South Korea 6.2% (2002 est.)
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