we found no statistical evidence of an effect for UN sanctions
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That's kind of odd given the DPRK's UN sanctions . . .
Juche has done a good job with mitigating their effects and still doing poverty eradication. Post collapse of the Soviet Union there were definitely some famines, but I think that's before the major UN sanctions go implemented in 2006. By that time they were pretty much self-sufficient anyway.
I'm not knocking the DPRK's efforts, but they still have a pretty high child malnutrition rate because Juche is not magic, even if it's not remotely as bad as during the Arduous March.
True, they would be doing a lot better without sanctions. Probably more of the reason it's not in this study is because figures from the DPRK are hard to come by and just ignored mostly.