Reforming North Korea
December 7th, 2014
Via Al Jazeera, an interesting article on how North Korea, at long last, may have decided to begin Chinese-style reforms: There is big news coming from North Korea recently, though it has gone largely unnoticed. Indeed, when North Korea is mentioned in the international media, it is usually because of the unending saga of the […]
Read more »North Korea: Open For Business
November 19th, 2014
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at Rason, a special economic zone far from the police state in Pyongyang: For the few who have ever been to North Korea, it might be a familiar feeling: that of being inside a country, while at the same time feeling outside of it. Visitors stroll through the streets […]
Read more »North Korea’s Art Factory Has An International Market Niche
August 6th, 2014
Via the Daily Beast, a look at a very interesting niche North Korean company: Did the Hermit Kingdom’s Soviet-style Kim Jong-il statue catch your eye? You’re in luck! The art studio-cum-propaganda factory is taking international orders. There are a lot of things North Korea is known for—threats of missile strikes, visits from Dennis Rodman, collecting […]
Read more »North Korea: An Emerging Regional Crossroads
April 21st, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of North Korea’s potential as a regional crossroads in Asia: North Korea has attracted increased attention in recent weeks, less for its nuclear potential or missile tests and more for its potential as a transportation and energy corridor. On April 18, the lower house of Russia’s parliament ratified […]
Read more »Prospects for the Moscow-Busan “Iron Silk Road Express”
November 12th, 2013
Via SinoNK, a report on the new rail connection between Russia and North Korea: The DPRK’s northeast is once again the place to look for economic and political policy changes in the hermit kingdom. Since Rason Special Economic Zone’s 2009 rise in development, China has been the main investor in the borderlands. But now Russia […]
Read more »North Korea: The Next Thailand Of Asia?
October 31st, 2013
Via NK News.org, an interesting report on North Korea: Nearly all communist states tended to have a “main construction project,” an impressive undertaking where, if the newspapers were to be believed, the workers’ enthusiasm for labor produced amazing feats and whose eventual completion would bring an era of unparalleled prosperity. North Korea is no exception. […]
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