美国的朝鲜问题专家--尤金.贝尔基金会主席林顿说，贫困的朝鲜有越来越多的人依靠非正规市场来弥补粮食和其 它必需品的短缺。林顿星期二在华盛顿说，朝鲜政府对与受朝鲜国家控制的经济不符的很多做法听之任之。他说，很多社会经济各个阶层的人，包括农民、工人和政 府官员，都越来越多地从这些未经批准的市场获得益处。林顿说，在邻近朝鲜最亲密盟友中国的边境地带，这些市场尤其繁荣。
总部设在华盛顿的朝鲜经济研究所副所长亚伯拉罕.金对美国之音说，他上个月访问朝鲜时看到了同样的情况。金说，朝鲜政府看来在市场和政府对经济的严格控制之间处于矛盾状态。但他表示，朝鲜官员容忍这种局面，因为市场为民众提供所需的粮食和消费品。
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 necessities.Stephen 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 month.Kim 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.