North Korea is ranked one of the poorest countries in the world. Recent estimates are scarce, but CIA World Factbook estimates its gross domestic product per capita to be around $1,700 in 2015.

North Korea is one of the poorest countries in the world. Recent estimates are scarce, but CIA World Factbook estimates its gross domestic product per capita was around $1,700 in 2015. That said ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) restored Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its World Factbook, ending a controversy over the sudden disappearance of the reference. The CIA had referred ...