UN sanctions on Pyongyang seem to be having
an impact on the North Korean economy.
Local news agency YTN,... quoting numbers
from the Korea Resources Corporation,... reports
that the North's mineral resources exports
to China last year,... have fallen to less
than half what they were the year before.
North Korea exported some 640 million U.S.
dollars of mineral resources,... such as nickel,
silver and copper,... to China in 2017,...
down some eight-hundred million dollars from
the previous year.
Coal exports in particular,.... saw a 66-percent
percent drop from a year earlier.
