Revolution on the Margins? Surveying the Trade Environment in Rason
In a strongly-documented piece, Sabine van Ameijden assesses the risks inherent in any foreign investment in Rason, the special economic zone in the extreme northeastern corner of the DPRK.
Building a “North Korean Hong Kong”: Tang Longwen on the Sinuiju SEZs
Along with SinoNK.com analyst Alan Ferrie, experts Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland have been keeping us up to date on what has been happening — or not happening — in the new Special Economic Zones near Sinuiju. However, it never hurts to get another Chinese point of view on these matters, especially when that point […]
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Please follow us on Twitter for the real-time experience Linkages – Adam Cathcart, SinoNK’s chief editor, had a piece published in The Atlantic on the subject of the DPRK’s orchestral diplomacy. – Juan Cole at Informed Comment relied on SinoNK’s breakdown of what the University of Michigan professor called “The N. Korea-Iran Nuclear Connection Fraud.” […]
Weekly Digest
Steven Denney is the Editor-in-Chief of the Yonsei Journal of International Studies (PEAR) — a journal which is accepting submissions from graduate students and junior faculty until March 15, Seoul time. In this installment of the Weekly Digest, Denney assesses the still very fresh announcement by North Korea that it would “freeze” nuclear activities in exchange for […]
Strategy for the Successful Development of the North Korean Minerals Sector
The DPRK is quite literally sitting on a goldmine, and is endowed with considerable mineral resources. The successful exploitation of this mineral wealth has not yet been realized, but a number of international firms–including Chinese and South Korean–are actively courting the North Korean government. Alan Ferrie, an international economics analyst based in Puget Sound, Washington, […]
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