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...That big goal, Mr Chun maintains, is the country’s economic development, which has been sorely hobbled by US sanctions....
...“It is about acknowledging North Korea as a normal state,” said Kim Jae-chun, a professor of political science at Sogang University....
...“I hate to say this but I agree with Trump on this,” said Bong Youngshik, of Yonsei University. ”For the first time unpredictability and uncertainty are not serving as assets for North Korea, but for the...
...It makes tomorrow more dangerous,” says Chun Yung-woo, a former leading South Korean negotiator with Pyongyang....
...In 1983, North Korean agents killed 21 people in a failed bombing attempt on Chun Doo-hwan, then South Korean leader, during a state visit to Myanmar....
...Finance is non-existent, says Cho Bong-hyun of the IBK Economic Research Institute in Seoul. “Private sector finance is mostly just loan sharks.”...
...But in other ways the haenyeo life has changed with the times, I hear from Park Bong-sook, whom I meet near a luxury resort on Jeju’s east coast....
...“We are opening up the economy and welcome foreign companies and increased trade,” says Hyon Hak Bong, Pyongyang’s ambassador to London....
...Choi Byung-seung and Chun Eui-bong have spent the past nine months in a tiny tent atop the steel power transmission tower in front of Hyundai’s Ulsan plant, demanding the carmaker convert its 8,000 contract...
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