According to a year-by-year chart of North Korea trade released by the UK Department of International Trade on the 3rd, Britain's exports to North Korea have been on the rise since 2020.
The UK Department of International Trade (DIT) released the latest North Korea-Trade & Investment Factsheets on the 3rd .
According to this data, the total trade volume between the UK and North Korea from January 2022 to December of that year recorded 103 million pounds ( approximately 130 million US dollars ) .
This is an increase of 49 million pounds ( approximately $ 61 million ) , or 90.7% , compared to the amount of trade with North Korea in 2021 .
Of these, UK exports to North Korea amounted to 77 million pounds ( approximately 97 million dollars ) , an increase of 103% from 2021 , and imports increased by 62% to 26 million pounds ( approximately 32 million dollars ) . .
The data showed that ' goods ' accounted for less than 0.1% of the total exports to North Korea , and that almost 100% occurred in the ' services ' sector, but did not explain which service transactions were conducted .
In this regard, the British Department of International Trade explained to Radio Free Asia (RFA) in August of last year that “ the National Bureau of Statistics does not disclose this content because it has a tendency to reveal ( personal information ) . ” (These data are not published and made publicly available by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) due to their disclosive nature)
Last year, North Korea's biggest export to the UK was 'office machinery ' .
On the other hand, according to the annual table of North Korea trade released by the Ministry of International Trade, Britain's exports to North Korea have been on the rise since 2020 .
Britain's total exports to North Korea in 2021 nearly doubled from £ 38 million ( $ 47 million ) to £ 77 million ( $ 97 million ) in 2022 .
Also, according to British standards, North Korea was ranked as the 148th largest trading partner last year .
Call for a boycott of the Academy Awards : Myanmar
A protester holds a "Bloody Academy" banner in front of the Presidential Cinema in Yangon.
Anti-military activists are calling for a boycott of the Academy Awards to be held by the Military Council.
Some of the young protestors from Dim Mi Tai and Ma Mangone carried signs saying "Bloody Academy" and staged a guerilla protest in front of some movie theaters in Yangon yesterday.
The coup military council is planning to hold this year's Academy Awards in Nay Pyi Taw. Unlike other years, it has been announced that the award will be awarded for three years.
Artists who will attend the Military Council's Academy Awards A young protester, who did not want to be named for security reasons, said that individuals will be punished by the people in the future.
There are also widespread activities of punishing artists who cooperate with the military council through social networking sites.
Chinese waiter: "You can't see Uyghurs in the dry city of Bingtuan!"
The slogan of "expanding Bintuan to the south" and "integrating Bintuan with the local area" is a component of the so-called "Xinjiang Strategy" that Xi Jinping has been emphasizing continuously since 10 years after taking the throne. In the past few years, the propaganda news about Kunyu City and its rapid development, which was established in 2016 in Bingtuan District 14, Hotan Prefecture, has been increasing.
China's "Bingtuan" website says that "Kunyu", which is 75 kilometers from Hotan, is the center of Bingtuan's 14th division. According to the information on "Bingtuan Internet", "Kurumkash city is located in the north of Karakurum mountain and in the south of Tarim basin. The total land area belonging to it is 1781.43 square kilometers. The main source of water comes from the Guma River, Karagash River and other reservoirs. Kunyu City has 1,340,000 acres of grassland, 14,400 acres of wetlands, 112,000 acres of artificial forests, and 401,000 acres of natural forest resources. The total population of Kunyu City in 2017 is 57,288. Among them, the Uighur population is more than 35,000.
In the news about the development of the city, "In 2020, the annual gross domestic product of Kurukash City will exceed 3.142 billion yuan. The average annual income per capita of permanent residents is 25,369 yuan.
We call Kurumkash city to get real-time information about Kurumkash city. A Chinese female employee answered our call, saying that she had been in Bingtuang for 20 years and that she was currently working at a hotel in Kurukash.
He said that Kurukash City, which was approved in 2016 and established as a city in 2017, is a young city that is developing rapidly, but the city, which was founded on the basis of Chinese people, has not yet been opened to tourists. He emphasized that there are almost no Uighurs in the city.
He said: “Kurumkash is a new city under Bintuan. There are few Uyghurs in Kurumkash. Almost none of the city's residents are Chinese. Because the desert is a newly founded city. There are many Chinese immigrants from the mainland, from Henan, Gansu, and all provinces. In the past 20 years, many people have immigrated to Bintuan from the provinces of China. In 2016, the Bintuan Bureau in Hotan was officially upgraded to the level of a division, and was established as the 14th division. But for 20 years, these lands have been owned by Bintuan."
He added, "Among those who have come over the past two years, the majority are from Gansu. Most of them are farmers from Gansu. They are government propaganda. Once their applications are accepted and approved, they will be allocated housing and land or assigned suitable jobs. At the very least, their lives will be secured."
Commenting on the economy of Kurumkash, he said: "There is no tourism service in Kurumkash, where agricultural products are mainly produced. Cotton is picked less. In this, citrus, walnut, and apple products are the main ones. We are in good condition now. We have food, clothing, everything. There is also a train station in Kurukash, and the airport is in Hotan. There are many preferential policies for Bingtuan employees who come here.
He said that each of the arriving Chinese immigrants was allocated 40 to 60 acres of citrus, walnut and grape orchards. They also get free housing or other job opportunities provided by Bintuan.
The Chinese woman praised the preferential policies for the Chinese people who continue to settle here, which are much better than those in Bingtuan in the north of the Uyghur region. I feel that conditions in the south are better than in the north. The climate of this place is hotter than the north, and the administrative system is relatively looser than that of Bintuan in the north. "The pay and other benefits are also very good."
Mr. Anwar Akhmet, an analyst of the Uyghur situation in Germany, said that when he used to work as a reporter for "Urumchi Evening Newspaper", he had a job interview at Bintuan-affiliated fields in Hotan. After 2016, Kurukash City was established in Hotan, emphasizing that its designation as a county-level city is closely related to the Chinese government's policy of expanding Bintuan to the south and sinicizing the south.
Professor of Haji Tapa University in Ankara, Dr. Free Ekram, the provinces of Hotan and Kashgar, where the majority of the population is Uyghurs, are located directly on the border with South Asian countries such as Pakistan and India, and the strategic location is very important. That's why the Chinese government has been building Bingtuan cities like Kurumsatan in recent years to fully control the Southern Uyghur region, occupy Uyghur lands, and aim to increase Chinese immigrants.