How North Korea Became the World’s Worst Economy

Nicholas Eberstadt writes in the Wall Street Journal: Economic history is a story of progress and success, but also of retrogression and failure. Among the latter cases, the most gruesome is surely the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK). Its signature catastrophe, the Great North Korean Famine of the 1990s, was, so far as … Continue reading How North Korea Became the World’s Worst Economy