A successful post-Kim economic transition will depend not on rapid liberalization but on a carefully sequenced process that first stabilizes the collapsed command system, then gradually expands market activity, and finally implements structural market reforms.

The immediate economic task after regime collapse will not be reform but governing a collapsed system during the first 90 days—stabilizing supply networks, markets, and monetary circulation under a United Nations–led framework combining domestic administrative continuity with international oversight.

A sudden collapse of North Korea’s dynastic regime would create an immediate and potentially destabilizing power vacuum, making pre-planned, coordinated international stabilization within the first seventy-two hours essential to prevent fragmentation, nuclear risk, and wider regional crisis.