美國專家：朝鮮人依賴非正規市場

An American expert on North Korea says a growing number of people in the impoverished state are depending on informal markets to make up for shortages of food and other hen Linton, chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation, told an audience in Washington Tuesday that the communist government turns a blind eye to many practices that are inconsistent with Pyongyang's state-controlled economy. He said people from various socioeconomic groups, including farmers, factory workers and government officials, increasingly benefit from these unauthorized markets. These markets, he said, thrive especially along the border with China, North Korea's closest ally.

Abraham Kim, vice president of the Washington-based Korea Economic Institute, told VOA he had seen the same thing on a visit to North Korea last said the government appears to be a contradiction between the markets and the government's strict state control of the economy. But he said officials tolerate the situation because the markets are making needed food and consumer goods available to the public.美國的朝鮮問題專家--尤金.貝爾基金會主席林頓說，貧困的朝鮮有越來越多的人依靠非正規市場來彌補糧食和其它必需品的短缺。林頓星期二在華盛頓說，朝鮮政府對與受朝鮮國家控制的經濟不符的很多做法聽之任之。他說，很多社會經濟各個階層的人，包括農民、工人和政府官員，都越來越多地從這些未經批准的市場獲得益處。林頓說，在鄰近朝鮮最親密盟友中國的邊境地帶，這些市場尤其繁榮。

總部設在華盛頓的朝鮮經濟研究所副所長亞伯拉罕.金對美國之音說，他上個月訪問朝鮮時看到了同樣的情況。金說，朝鮮政府看來在市場和政府對經濟的嚴格控制之間處於矛盾狀態。但他表示，朝鮮官員容忍這種局面，因爲市場爲民衆提供所需的糧食和消費品。