North Korea, unlike its Southern neighbor, is not particularly well-known for occupying first lines in various life quality indexes or demonstrating rapid paces of economic development. According to different estimates, the South is 30 to 50 times richer than the North. How come is that two parts of what used to be one country less than a century ago are now so different? Why is North Korea so poor and how did it come to that? I will talk about that in today’s episode. For the full transcript and references visit the website - https://askmeaboutdprk.wordpress.com