Zoe Chase
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252 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Zoe Chase’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nicholas Ebersett is with the American Enterprise Institute.
He's been studying the North Korean economy since the 70s.
And he says the shocking thing to him is that back then, North and South Korea were in a heated economic race.
Now, South Korea's economy is 50 times larger than North Korea's.
And just to put this into perspective, the state of Wyoming has a bigger economy than North Korea.
The country's leader Kim Jong il would occasionally crack down on the Donju, throw some of them in prison, close down some markets, but when Kim Jong il's son Kim Jong-un came into power, he had a very different approach.
Kim Jong un proclaimed that the era of struggle was over, and he declared two main goals for his country number one, to build up the weapons program and number two, to grow the economy.
Growing the economy?
That meant making a little more room to maneuver for this tiny class of donju.
But North Korean entrepreneurs were at a real disadvantage.
Things that are just like in our blood in the US.
Marketing, two for one sales, venture capital
These things don't really exist in North Korea.
So Kim Jong-un decided to help out the Donju.
He started letting business experts come in from overseas and coach them.
This is Andre Abrahamian.
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