North Korea may be poorer and more volatile than formerly thought.<br />A British daily made such analysis based on night time satellite images which revealed that the North's annual GDP per person hovers around 14-hundred U.S. dollars. That's well below South Korean estimate of over 2-thousand.<br />Citing the new study by World Data Lab, a private company based in Vienna,... The Times reported Sunday that nocturnal luminosity for the regime reduced by 40 percent from 2013 to 2015. <br />The report pointed to heatwaves and drought as the main reasons behind such a drop. <br />
