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Insight: Won for the money: North Korea experiments with exchange rates By James Pearson SEOUL | Sun Nov 3, 2013 6:28pm EST (Reuters) - In a dimly-lit Pyongyang toyshop packed with Mickey Mouse picture frames and plastic handguns, a basketball sells for 46,000 Korean Peoples Won - close to $500 at North Koreas centrally planned exchange rate. Luckily, for young North Koreans looking to shoot hoops with Dennis Rodman, the new friend of leader Kim Jong Un, the Chinese-made ball actually costs a little less than $6 based on black market rates. Once reserved for official exchange only in zones aimed at attracting foreign investment, and in illegal underground market deals elsewhere, black market rates are being used more frequently and openly in North Korean cities. reuters/article/2013/11/03/us-korea-north-money-insight-idUSBRE9A20GZ20131103
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:37:48 +0000

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