North Korea ECONOMIC SYSTEM>/TITLE></HEAD> <body bgcolor="#0000ff" text="ffffff" <BODY> <H1><CENTER>North Korea ECONOMIC SYSTEM</H1></CENTER> <CENTER><IMG SRC="gifs/108c.jpg"></CENTER> <H3><CENTER>By NIGRITIAN CHIEF OF THE FREE WORLD</H3></CENTER> <H3>General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Economic Systems</H3> <UL><LI> <H4>Agricultural Age Economic Systems: Feudal economic systems and earlier ancient empire economic systems based on slavery</H4> <P> <LI> <H4>Industrial Age Economic Systems: Rise of capitalist economic systems and then socialist economic system as a crituque of capitalism.</H4> <P> <LI> <H4>Information Age Economic Systems: Capitalist and socialist economic systems are veing greatly restructured as they become; no pure systems, hybrids instead, though also privatization trends world wide--including in former socialist countries</H4> <P> </UL> <H3>Information/Data on North Korea Economic System: The system depended on mining, industries requiring heavy capital investement, utilities, public services, banks, Tourism industry. </H3> <H3>Conclusions on North Korea is Primarily Industrial Age: It appeared for a time that North Korea could not remian immune indefinitely to the fallout from the political and econonic collapse of communist regimes as well as to the ris oof South Korea as an economic powerhouse. Eventually, the sever economic difficulties and adverse changes in the international environment will become serious enough to compel the North Korea leadership to introduces some changes in the economic institutions. </H3> <HR> <H3>Traditional Bibliographic Sources on North Korea Economic System</H3> <UL><LI>NORTH KOREA a country study. Federal Research Division Library of Congress. Edited by Andrea Matles Savada. <LI>CULTURGRAM '96 NORTH KOREA <LI>The Europa World Year Book 1995 ., Volume II K-Z 36-edition </UL> <HR> Return to <A HREF = "Default.htm">North Korea Home Page</A> <HR> </BODY> </HTML>