ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into marketisation and information and communications technology (ICT) as well as the digital economy to explain how the Kim regime has been resilient to the prolonged sanctions and has further managed to fund its nuclear programme. The chapter suggests that an enabling environment for marketisation within North Korea's socialist economy was created due to dysfunctional state capacity. This chapter argues that a popular uprising in North Korea in the near future is highly unlikely as information influx into North Korea has not been sufficient to give rise to activism.
