More than three years after Kim Jong Un shut borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea remains mostly closed off from the world. It could face another terrible famine, says this Asia Pacific Studies professor from the University of Central Lancashire.
, frequently appears in public media in expensive luxury outfits, while most ordinary citizens barely have access to basic supplies. And the North Korean government continues its programme of missile tests, despite the crippling economic difficulties.
People in North Korea are paralysed by the regime’s politics of fear, its surveillance system, control of mobility, and the songbun , which strictly controls people’s status and life chances. People at the top have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are.
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