Market Chaos In North Korea: Currency Crisis Devastates Trade
September 2nd, 2025
Via Daily NK, an article on how a currency crisis is devastating North Korean trade: A wave of inflation is crushing North Korean markets as exchange rates soar and the local currency plummets. [...]
Tiny Caribbean Island Makes Millions From Its Web Address
September 2nd, 2025 Via BBC, a look at how sheer luck made this tiny Caribbean island millions from its web address: Back in the 1980s when the internet was still in its infancy, countries were being handed their own [...]
September 2nd, 2025 Via BBC, a look at how sheer luck made this tiny Caribbean island millions from its web address: Back in the 1980s when the internet was still in its infancy, countries were being handed their own [...]
Trump’s Congo Gamble: Critical Minerals and a Dangerous New Bargain
August 31st, 2025 Via The Africa Report, a report on the Trump administration’s controversial agreement with Kinshasa, tying US access to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) mineral reserves to expanded [...]
August 31st, 2025 Via The Africa Report, a report on the Trump administration’s controversial agreement with Kinshasa, tying US access to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) mineral reserves to expanded [...]
Airlines Now Pay The Taliban $700 A Flight—Their New Cash Cow For ‘Safe Passage’ Over Afghanistan
August 31st, 2025 Via View from the Wing, a look at how airlines now pay for ‘safe passage’ over Afghanistan: Russian airspace has been off-limits to most Western carriers since the start of the Ukraine [...]
August 31st, 2025 Via View from the Wing, a look at how airlines now pay for ‘safe passage’ over Afghanistan: Russian airspace has been off-limits to most Western carriers since the start of the Ukraine [...]
North Korea’s Processed Goods Push Meets China’s Cold Market Reality
August 31st, 2025 Via The Diplomat, a report on how Chinese traders want North Korean companies to continue to export raw materials, which conflicts with the North Korean regime’s policy of exporting processed [...]
August 31st, 2025 Via The Diplomat, a report on how Chinese traders want North Korean companies to continue to export raw materials, which conflicts with the North Korean regime’s policy of exporting processed [...]
North Korea’s Glossy New Surface: Apps, Beaches and a Fake Starbucks
August 25th, 2025 Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on some videos taken by visitors to North Korea provide a rare glimpse of how it’s mimicking the consumerism of the outside world: North Korea is taking [...]
August 25th, 2025 Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on some videos taken by visitors to North Korea provide a rare glimpse of how it’s mimicking the consumerism of the outside world: North Korea is taking [...]