North Korea and Russia s move to strengthen their military ties following the rare summit between their leaders may benefit the two isolated countries in the short term but is unlikely to have a lasting or fundamental impact on the economic and political front, experts said Wednesday.
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KIM Jong-un looks skinnier than EVER after the dictator dropped more than 40 pounds amid a flurry of speculation about possible gastric band surgery.
The 37-year-old leader has piled on the pounds since he took power a decade ago - but he recently shed the blubber when he struggled to breathe after ballooning to 22 stone.
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A slimmed down Kim Jong un greets commanders and political officers of the Korean People s Army in PyongyangCredit: Reuters
South Korea s spy agency said Kim has lost a lot of weight in the last year - possibly more than 40 pounds - after disappearing from the public eye for several months.
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SEOUL, July 30 (Reuters) - North Korea s economy suffered its biggest contraction in 23 years in 2020 as it was battered by continued U.N. sanctions, COVID-19 lockdown measures and bad weather, South Korea s central bank said on Friday.
The Bank of Korea (BOK) gives the most reliable estimates of economic output in the reclusive North, but other experts said the situation could be even worse.
Kim Byeong-yeon, an economics professor at Seoul National University who specialises in North Korea, estimated that the economy there could have shrunk up to 20% from 2017-20, taking into account the role of informal markets which he said the BOK tends to overestimate during downturns.
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