Will North Korea Embrace Reforms?

... strengthen her positions in Northeast Asia, and help the Russian business enter multilateral projects. Geo-economically and geopolitically, Russia’s interests have to do, first and foremost, with the prospects for building a gas pipeline into South Korea across North Korea and connecting the Trans-Korean railroad to the Trans-Siberian railway. The reforms would help complete these projects and stabilize the economic situation in North Korea. The 2012 North Korean debt negotiations, which resulted in a 90 per cent write-off, with the balance of 10 per cent (USD 1.1 bln.) pledged to an investment ...