A nation must think before it acts.
North Korea’s 2017 budget report is out, and that means we can glean some insights into the country’s economy. This is a brief overview, so I would advise readers who wish to do more research on their own to use Ruediger Frank’s previous writing on the topic as a guide to making sense of the most recent budget report (see, for example, here, and here), in combination with information about the budget report itself.