It’s premature to say the market became the dominant mechanism in North Korea

A conversation with Jo Dong-ho, March 2019

JO Dongho is the president of the Institute for National Security Strategy since 2017. He is a professor of Ewha Womans University and was a director of Ewha Institute of Unification Studies, and had previously worked at Korea Development Institute for 16 years as senior research fellow and director of North Korean Economic Studies. He is one of most renowned experts of North Korean economy in South Korea and abroad.