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4 Min Read SEOUL, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Already suffering under stringent U.S. and U.N. sanctions, North Korea’s economy faced a double whammy of severe floods and the coronavirus pandemic this year, which prompted Pyongyang to shut its border with China and ditch outside aid. Kicking off a rare congress on Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his ambitious five-year economic plan unveiled in 2016 had “tremendously fell short of goals on almost every sector”. How bad is North Korea’s economy? Here is what we know. SHRINKING ECONOMY After shrinking 4.1% in 2018 - its sharpest contraction in 21 years - North Korea’s economy grew 0.4% in 2019, thanks to improved weather and crop yields, according to South Korea’s central bank.

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