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North Korea's gross domestic product is estimated to be just a tiny sliver of the size of South Korea's bustling one-trillion-dollar economy -- as little as three percent of that. By one estimate, North Korea's average official salary is equivalent to roughly two-dollars a month -- although it's thought that the the thriving black market brings that up to around 15 dollars a month. The North Korean government makes money through illegal trading, too: It's known to traffic in an international black market for weapons, illegal drugs and counterfeit currency. 75 percent of the country's trade is with China...and in return for providing the bulk of food and military aid to North Korea, the Chinese are allowed to exploit the country's resources through mining and fishing. North Korea has long relied on handouts to feed its own people. It's received more two million dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid this year, even as international sanctions have been tightened over its defiant development of nuclear weapons.
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उत्तर कोरियाली शासक किम जोङ उनले अमेरिकाले आफ्नो देशविरुद्ध युद्ध घोषणा पनि गर्न नपाउने बताएका छन्। नयाँ वर्ष २०१८ को पहिलो दिन सोमबार टेलिभिजन सम्बोधन गर्दै उनले उत्तरको मिसाइलले अमेरिकाको सबै भागमा हान्न सकिने र अमेरिकाले युद्धको घोषणा पनि गर्न नपाउने बताएका हुन्। ‘अमेरिकाले दिने सम्पूर्ण आणविक त्रासको सामना गर्ने सबै उपाय हामीसँग छन्,’ उनले सम्बोधनमा भनेका छन्। उनले उत्तर कोरियासँगको आणविक हतियार तर्साउन मात्र नभई वास्तविकता भएको कुरा पनि ख्याल गर्न अमेरिकालाई भनेका छन्। उनले यो वर्ष अझै ठूलो मात्रामा आणविक अस्त्र बनाउन लाग्ने र कहीँबाट सुरक्षा खतरा हुनासाथ त्यसको प्रयोग गरिने बताएका छन्। उत्तर कोरिया शान्ति मन पराउने जिम्मेवार आणविक राष्ट्र भएको पनि सन्देशमा उनले उल्लेख गरेका छन्।