North Korea.

The article presents forecasts for the economic growth, the inflation and the political stability in North Korea for 2013-2017. The level of public support for the government of Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of North Korea, will remain difficult to be measured. Gross domestic product fell by 0.1 percent in 2011 following a contraction of 0.5 percent in 2010. The prices of rice have fallen by around 80 percent since the beginning of 2013.