Why Pyongyang's top elites still cling to visions of a post-money society

North Korea’s complicated system of rationing largely collapsed in the 1990s, but powerful factions dream about restoring the system to its former clockwork precision. It seems that now, in 2022, these pro-distribution voices are louder than ever. The system is seen as fair – and it helps, of course, that the universal distribution greatly facilitated […]