Project

North Korea’s Economy: A Glimpse Through Imagery

In partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a commercial satellite imagery analysis series focused on the North Korean economy

About the Project

The 38 North Program at the Stimson Center and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency partnership uses unclassified imagery and data to produce new, timely, and accurate reporting on the North Korean economy. It is part of an effort to grow public-facing, authoritative open source intelligence on various strategic, economic, and humanitarian intelligence topics that tend to be under-reported within in-depth or long-form formats. These reports are published on Tearline and also syndicate to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s website, intelligence.gov, which is a transparency effort to better explain certain strategic and humanitarian IC missions to the public.

Research & Writing

Commentary

As North Korea begins to loosen its pandemic restrictions, assessing the current status of major tourism projects may provide some indication of its near-term expectations for resuming tourism.
January 25, 2023

Commentary

Without substantive investments, such as developing better transport networks or improving energy provision, North Korea’s Komdok mining region will remain underperforming.
August 17, 2022

Commentary

Press declarations of North Korea’s cement-related modernization efforts and successes often do not match observable markers of modernization or success on imagery
May 14, 2021

Sub-Projects

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WEBSITE

Tearline.mil
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is partnering with expert non-profit groups to grow public-facing, authoritative open source intelligence on various strategic, economic, and humanitarian intelligence topics that tend to be under-reported within in-depth or long-form formats.