Economic Development Korea

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  Kim Jong Un Warns Failure To Provide Food A "Serious Political Issue"

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for ways to be found to improve economic development after saying that a failure to provide people with basic living necessities including food is a "serious political issue", state media reported on Thursd

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  North Korea Ordered 1,000 Volvo Cars From Sweden And Never Paid. Read The Viral Story

  In the 1970s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvo cars from Sweden as part of its economic development plan.

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  North Korea Pursues Weapons Despite Covid Blockade: UN Report

  North Korea has continued to pursue its weapons development programmes despite facing a worsening economic situation due to its self-imposed coronavirus blockade, a new UN report has said.

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  North Korea's Kim Jong Un Admits Mistakes As Party Opens Rare Congress

  North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un admitted the country's economic development plan had fallen short in "almost all areas" as he opened a rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party, state media reported Wednesday.

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  North Korea, China Agree To Boost "Strategic, Tactical" Cooperation: Report

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed measures to bolster "strategic and tactical" cooperation between the two countries in a second meeting on Wednesday, the North's state media said on Thursday.

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  Kim Jong Un Hopes To Learn Much From Singapore: State Media

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was impressed by Singapore's economic development and hoped he could learn from the country during a night tour of some of the city state's landmarks, the North's state media said on Tuesday.

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  Kim Jong Un Reshuffles Military Leadership Ahead Of Trump Summit: US Official

  North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, a move analysts said could support efforts by the North's young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world.

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  Asia's Most Overworked Country Pushes For Right To Rest

  President Moon Jae-in's drive to give South Koreans their "right to rest" by slashing work hours is making little headway as lawmakers haggle over pay rates for weekends.

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  North Korea Accuses US Of Blocking Development

  North Korea's UN envoy accused the United States on Tuesday of working to block economic development and denounced sanctions imposed on poor countries as a bid to "destroy modern civilization."

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  Economic Slowdown Tied to Rise in Obesity in Richer Nations: OECD

  While rates are rising as much as 3 percent a year in countries such as Australia, France, Mexico and Switzerland, they have been fairly stable in other countries such as the Unites States, Canada, Korea and Italy, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said in report.

• Ferry tragedy undermines South Korea economic 'miracle'

  South Korea's ferry disaster has had a profound psychological impact on Asia's fourth-largest economy, shaking public confidence in the very foundations of the country's "miracle" development model.

• Aid-giving by rich countries falls for a second year: OECD

  Development aid from rich countries to some of the world's poorest fell for a second year in a row in 2012, as big European donor countries hit by years of debt crisis cut their spending.

• Japan's Shinzo Abe turns to South-East Asia to counter China

  The last time he was prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe's inaugural foreign trip was to China. In the job again 7 years later and relations with Beijing now chilly, Abe is turning first this time to the rising economic stars of Southeast Asia.

• Global economy in worst shape since 2009

  The economic superstars of the developing world, China and India, are in no position to come to the rescue.