But other countries do report their exports to North Korea, and figures through the end of 2010 are compiled in the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, or UN Comtrade.

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But commodity content like scores and statistics, including fantasy, still accounts for the lion's share of traffic to these sites.

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That and other factors may help explain why there is a seeming disconnect between commodity prices and many industrial production statistics, on the one hand, and the numbers for the growth of the economy as a whole on the other.

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