North Korea’s airline has resumed flights to China and rail passenger services across the border after 43 months of total isolation. Kim Jong Un may even visit Russia.
North Korean authorities shut down international borders at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Almost all cross-border exchanges, including tourism, diplomatic visits, aid deliveries and
The prolonged isolation also deepened the country’s chronic food insecurity, making people grow more dependent on Kim’s authoritarian leadership for their livelihoods. During the lockdown, North Korea tried to make do with its ideology of self-reliance, such as boosting domestic manufacturing in limited areas, including textiles and agriculture. The regime has also ramped up its cybercrime activities to steal foreign currency in forms of cryptocurrency and other virtual assets, cyber analysts say.
And trade with Russia is increasing as well, though at lower levels than with China. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the growing global isolation of MoscowNorth Korea has “a capacity to promptly supply Russia with the sought-after munitions” following a full-fledged reopening of the land route between the two countries, said Cho Han-bum, an analyst at Seoul’s Korea Institute for National Unification.
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