US EditionChanel cosmetics, fur coats expose North Korea’s widening wealth chasm
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The inequality between a small but wealthy elite and the underprivileged majority in North Korea appears to be growing ever wider. And this despite the fact that "ordinary citizens" have been led to believe for eighty years that they are a people with "nothing to envy."
Luxury goods surge in North Korea as deepening poverty widens inequality
North Korea’s wealth gap is reportedly widening, as luxury goods circulate among affluent border residents while ordinary citizens face growing extreme poverty. According to Daily NK on Nov. 22, economic disparities in areas near the Chinese border have become more pronounced compared with the period before trade resumed. In cities such as Hoeryong in North Hamgyong Province and Hyesan in Ryanggang Province, cross-border commerce through customs…
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