partners—USSR, Japan, China, Hong Kong, FRG, Singapore
_#_External debt: $7 billion (1991)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%
_#_Electricity: 6,440,000 kW capacity; 40,250 million kWh produced, 1,890 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: machine building, military products, electric power, chemicals, mining, metallurgy, textiles, food processing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 25% of GNP and 36% of work force; principal crops—rice, corn, potatoes, soybeans, pulses; livestock and livestock products—cattle, hogs, pork, eggs; not self-sufficient in grain; fish catch estimated at 1.7 million metric tons in 1987
_#_Economic aid: Communist countries, $1.4 billion a year in the 1980s
_#_Currency: North Korean won (plural—won); 1 North Korean won (Wn) = 100 chon
_#_Exchange rates: North Korean won (Wn) per US$1—2.2 (March 1991), 2.1 (January 1990), 2.3 (December 1989), 2.13 (December 1988), 0.94 (March 1987), NA (1986), NA (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year