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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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3.38 %
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[33rd of 38]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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8.29 %
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[31st of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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37.24 %
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[22nd of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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3.38 %
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[33rd of 39]
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Illicit drugs
for years, from the 1970s into the 2000s, citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK), many of them diplomatic employees of the government, were apprehended abroad while trafficking in narcotics, including two in Turkey in December 2004; police investigations in Taiwan and Japan in recent years have linked North Korea to large illicit shipments of heroin and methamphetamine, including an attempt by the North Korean merchant ship Pong Su to deliver 150 kg of heroin to Australia in April 2003 |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
North Korea is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; the most common form of trafficking involves North Korean women and girls who cross the border into China voluntarily; additionally, North Korean women and girls are lured out of North Korea to escape poor social and economic conditions by the promise of food, jobs, and freedom, only to be forced into prostitution, marriage, or exploitative labor arrangements once in China |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - North Korea does not fully comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the government does not acknowledge the existence of human rights abuses in the country or recognize trafficking, either within the country or transnationally; North Korea has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol |
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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Korea, North, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea, Choson-minjujuui-inmin-konghwaguk, korea, democratic people's republic of, democratic people’s republic of korea, korea, dem. people's rep., korea, dem., korea-north nk, Korea DPR, DPR Korea, Korea (DPR), Korea, Democratic People's Republic, D.P.R. Korea
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