Data show that after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on the DPRK in March last year, the DPRK lost about 200 million US dollars in foreign exchange earnings, equivalent to 7.4% of the total export volume of the DPRK in 20 15 (2.7 billion US dollars), which brought a big blow to the DPRK economy. In this case, it is very important to rent embassy property to earn foreign exchange income.

2. Overseas restaurants

North Korea's overseas catering industry is mainly distributed in China, Russian, Italian, Thai, Cambodian and other major cities in more than 0/0 countries, with about 30 restaurants or pubs. As a base for North Korea to earn foreign exchange, most of these restaurants and restaurants are high-grade and priced far higher than local prices, but they were once prosperous.

However, after the UN sanctions in March last year, the situation of these overseas Korean restaurants became difficult, even though the restaurants themselves were not actually on the sanctions list of the UN resolutions. As two countries that once had friendly relations, Malaysia is an important "stronghold" of North Korea in Southeast Asia, and there is a North Korean restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. On the opening day of the restaurant in April 2008, Sai-Kit Yung, then Minister of Communications of Malaysia, and Park Long-won, then North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia, attended the opening ceremony.

Now, with the diplomatic storm caused by the death of a North Korean man in Malaysia, the restaurant has been closed.

3. Labor export

On August 1 day, 2065438, Kim Jong-un, the top leader of North Korea, issued an order saying that North Korea should earn more foreign exchange, resume local factory production and improve people's living standards. Since then, the Workers' Party of Korea, the government and other institutions have been increasingly active in sending workers overseas.

Data show that North Korea currently sends laborers to more than 50 countries, most of which are countries with high construction demand, including Russian and China. More than 60% of migrant workers are engaged in the construction industry, and they are also engaged in catering, sewing, forestry, medical care, IT and agriculture.

In many countries with North Korean labor services, everyone appreciates that North Korean workers "work hard and never complain". It is reported that all their wages are paid to the account of the North Korean embassy, and then the embassy will distribute about 1/4 of the income to these workers. In other words, according to the average wage of North Korean overseas workers, they can get around 300 yuan every month. Even so, this income is still higher than the domestic per capita income.

4. Sightseeing

According to the estimation of Korean researchers, the tourism income of North Korea in 20 14 years was as high as 43.6 million dollars. By 20 14, China had attracted 65438+ million foreign tourists, most of whom were from South Korea.

According to the data, the goal of the North Korean government is to attract 6.5438 million overseas tourists every year by 2065.438+07, and increase it to 2 million by 2020.

Kim Jong-un once said, "Investing and developing tourism is the most important task of North Korea, which can not only bring economic benefits to the country, but also improve the world's understanding of North Korea."

However, the United Nations sanctions against North Korea have also hindered the development of North Korea's tourism.

Since then, northern China has stepped up its efforts to attract tourists from all over the world, including the south, in order to get rid of the shortage of foreign exchange. To this end, North Korea has launched various tourism products and services.