NORTH KOREA KNITWEAR COULD BE HIDDEN STRENGTH OF COMMUNIST HERMIT KINGDOM
October 1st, 2012
BY MARK ROWE
NORTH Korea, the world's most secretive state and the focus of many international diplomatic headaches, has an unexpectedly burgeoning sector: the country's knitwear industry.
As one might expect for this tightly and centrally planned economy, the knitting industry is controlled by the central communist government: all knitting mills and factories are controlled by the Knitting Industry Management Bureau. Production statistics from any totalitarian state take some believing, but according to the bureau, knitting mills over-fulfilled their plans for ...
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