North Korea’s Economy: A Glimpse Through Imagery

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.