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Within the past few years, I read that there weren’t many cars in North Korea. The article said that only a small number of high ranking government people had cars.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Some people in Pyongyang got rich by running hard-currency running enterprises, and some others made money in local markets and smuggling operations. Apparently they bought cars. Income distribution in N. Korea is further polarized after Kim Jong-un took power, I think. Even inside Pyongyang. The city center(Chang-kwang District) now has new high-rise building complex with glitzy facade, while the rest of Pyongyang is economically depressed. The place is all Chang-kwang and nothing else, it seems.

Amazingly, Western ‘experts’ see it as a sign of ‘economic prosperity,’ a gross distortion of what is happening.

Kim Jong-un is concentrating economic resources into his missiles/nuke development and these selected show-case projects. He is keen to showing outside world that they are becoming nuclear power and economically prospering at the same time, beating sanctions. He is trying to show that his “Byung-jin” policy is working, simultaneously pursuing military and economic development.