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 […]
Read more »Calling Pyongyang … Orascom Eyes Cell Phone Venture in North Korea
December 17th, 2008
Via The Financial Times, news that Orascom is looking at setting up a mobile phone venture in North Korea. As the article notes “…Setting up a mobile phone service in North Korea – an authoritarian state that has banned mobiles – may sound like a misguided venture but Egypt’s Orascom reckons it can defy conventional […]
Read more »South Korea Deals for Russian Gas
October 1st, 2008
Via Reuters, news that South Korea agreed on a $90 billion deal to import Siberian gas that should allow Russia to diversify away from Europe while bringing North Korea closer to its neighbour via pipeline diplomacy. As the article noted: “…South Korea’s Energy Ministry said in a statement the country wanted to import up to […]
Read more »Russia’s Far Eastern Frontier: Energy as a Political Tool
August 1st, 2008
As recently reported in The Japan Focus, Russia’s Far Eastern frontier is now turning into the place where energy export becomes a political tool in shaping the country’s relations with regional neighbors. China, the two Koreas, and Japan are hungry for energy, natural resources and, at the same time, seek economic and political cooperation. In […]
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