Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Poor Professors, State Corruption, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit Within the North Korean Economy

By | August 23, 2012

At ASAN, Brian Gleason channels testimony from Kim Heung Kwang, a former professor in North Korea and current head of North Korea Intellectual Solidarity, and discussion of state corruption in the DPRK.

“Friendship Prices”: Understanding Chinese-North Korean Energy Trade

By | February 22, 2012

The deepening of ties between China and other parts of the developing world in recent years has been met a great deal of hyperbole. Just as many onlookers describe China’s growing stake in Africa as “neo-colonial” (charges described and refuted in North Korean media) Chinese investments in the DPRK have also accrued a predatory stigma. But as […]