North Korea, Russia Benefit from Potential Natural Gas, Railway Deals
August 23rd, 2011
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting report on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s visit with Russian leaders where they will likely discuss a railway project and a natural gas pipeline project, which, if implemented, would give Russia greater influence in the Korean Peninsula while allowing North Korea to wean itself off Chinese influence. […]
Read more »A Port In A Storm: China Leases North Korean Port
July 25th, 2010
Via Yonhap, a report that China has acquired the rights to use another one of North Korea’s northeastern ports. As the article notes: “…China has used the North Korean port of Rajin in North Hamgyong Province for commercial trade since 2008. An official at the Tumen city government in northeast China said that a Chinese […]
Read more »Northeast Asia’s Tumen Basin Initiative
February 2nd, 2010
Via Northeast Asia Matters, a detailed look at the Tumen Basin which many hope will develop into a place for economic cooperation and competition. As the report notes: “…the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI), formerly known as Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP), being carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). […]
Read more »China: Interested In Mining North Korea’s Mineral Wealth
October 7th, 2009
Via The Financial Times, a report that China aims to gain access to North Korea’s mineral wealth. As the article notes: “… if resource-hungry China hopes revived camaraderie will also grant it a large bite of North Korea’s massive untapped mineral wealth, analysts and diplomats warn, Beijing could be sorely disappointed. North Korea’s mineral wealth […]
Read more »Is Capitalism Coming To North Korea?
September 29th, 2009
Courtesy of Fortune, an interesting article on an American entrepreneur who is trying to set up a university in North Korea that would offer, among other things, an MBA program. As the report notes: “…James Kim, an American businessman turned educator, once sat in the very last place that anyone in the world would wish […]
Read more »North Korean Trade With The Outside World
May 29th, 2009
Via Yonhap, an interesting look at North Korea’s foreign trade. As the report notes: “…North Korean trade with the outside world, excluding South Korea, hit a record US$3.8 billion last year, a report said Monday, despite rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Trade jumped 29.7 percent compared with 2007, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, a […]
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