Seoul: North Korea must create a legal framework for traders buying and selling basic necessities such as food and clothing to tackle rights violations in the country, the United Nations’ human rights body said.
Campaign groups estimate that around three-quarters of North Korea’s population have dependEd on private market activity to survive since the collapse of the public distribution system – a state rations network – in the mid-1990s.
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