North Korea researchers likely to be in the dark as defections fall, study says

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A study from a South Korean government-funded think tank warns that researchers should not expect new, annual updates on North Korea’s informal economy in the near future due to the decline in defections since the COVID-19 pandemic. Defector surveys, essentially the only source of micro-level data allowing quantitative analysis on what ordinary North Koreans earn […]

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North Korea researchers likely to be in the dark as defections fall, study says

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