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North Korea: “An Opportunity Like None Other”
December 11th, 2007

From The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal, an interesting review of Lafarge’s recent acquisition of the Egyptian cement company Orascom (covered in this blog earlier) which emphasizes that the purchase also involved an entree for the French company into North Korea. As the article notes, North Korea may – eventually – offer an opportunity like […]

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