Institute for Far East Studies (IFES) NK Brief No. 07-9-21-1 9/21/2007 The recent growth in the private-sector economy in DPRK markets and other areas of society has brought with it some significant social changes worth noting. According to most defectors from the North, following the massive famine suffered in the mid 1990s, the biggest change … Continue reading Class Divergence on the Rise as Market Economics Spred in DPRK