North Korea
North Korea’s luxury goods imports amount to $666m in 2016: lawmaker
Oct. 12, 2017
North Korea imported $666 million worth of luxury items last year, which takes up 17.9 percent of the year’s total imports, a lawmaker here said Thursday. According to data from the Chinese Customs revealed by Rep. Yoon Sang-hyun of the Liberty Korea Party, the communist state’s imports of luxury goods increased by $59 million, or 9.8 percent, from 2015.The luxury goods included upmarket electronics, cars, leather products and watches. Kim Jong-un (center) (Yonhap)Electronics made up the bigges