North Korea\u2019s economy continues to grow, despite international sanctions and the country\u2019s isolation, according to the Yonhap news agency, citing data from the Bank of Korea.<\/p>\n
According to estimates by the Bank of Korea, North Korea\u2019s GDP has been growing by more than 3 per cent for the third year running \u2013 largely thanks to increased cooperation with Russia. According to Seoul, Pyongyang\u2019s economy grew by 3.5 per cent in 2025. A year earlier, this figure stood at 3.7 per cent, and in 2023 it was 3.1 per cent.<\/p>\n
South Korea notes that these results were influenced by increased trade with China, joint domestic projects and deeper economic ties with Moscow.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpanded economic cooperation with Russia, increased trade with China and domestic policy projects have helped North Korea achieve growth of over 3 per cent for three consecutive years,\u201d the Bank of Korea stated.<\/p>\n
Military production has become one of the key areas of cooperation with Russia. According to Seoul\u2019s estimates, Pyongyang has sent around 15,000 troops to support Russia in the war against Ukraine following the signing of a strategic partnership agreement between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin in 2024.<\/p>\n
There are also reports of an increase in arms production for Russia and rising demand in the food industry due to the greater number of Russian tourists.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the economic scales of the two Koreas remain incomparable. The DPRK\u2019s nominal gross national income in 2025 was estimated at 48.5 trillion won (around 33.8 billion dollars), which represents just 1.8 per cent of South Korea\u2019s figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":152018,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-152017","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/152017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=152017"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=152017"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=152017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}