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is CBSi on the world. I'm John Batcher. Ukraine conflict, Russian economy, sanctions.

Russian industrial output growth, Reuters headline. sanctions. I welcome Michael Bernstom of the Hoover Institution, my guide on the Russian economy during Ukraine

war. Unemployment drops to record low is a positive way of saying there's a labor shortage and the labor shortage has been reported now for

several weeks. Michael a very good evening to you I put this labor shortage story

together with a little detective work that you've taught me to go to a story about

North Korea. North Korea, a very desperate poor gang-lend economy run by dictators and brutes for many decades is now said to be an open economic

zone for Russia. Does that connect in some fashion to an advantage for Moscow?

Good evening to you. Good evening to you and it is a mutually beneficial for Russia

and for North Korea it is bad for Ukraine because

they are producing communition which Russia lacks. They are producing weaponry in this

three economic zone.

Although I saw some reports which were saying that those are poor quality artillery

pieces which explode before they're being shut.

So maybe it's not such a good deal for Russia. But nonetheless, from the pure economic standpoint, regardless of the military quality of this weapons.

It is a good deal for both because Russia has labor shortages.

Now they have a record low unemployment of 2.9%,

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