DPRK Business Monthly: November 2014
Published: November 2014The latest issue of DPRK Business Monthly is now available as a complimentary PDF download on the Asia Briefing Bookstore. This regular publication looks at current international, domestic, and peninsular affairs concerning North Korea while also offering commentary and tourism information on the country.
The latest issue of DPRK Business Monthly is now available as a complimentary PDF download on the Asia Briefing Bookstore. This regular publication looks at current international, domestic, and peninsular affairs concerning North Korea while also offering commentary and tourism information on the country.
In international news, North Korea is ready to consider projects to use its territory as a transit route for Russian gas and electricity deliveries to South Korea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced.
In inter-Korean news, The Republic of Korea (ROK) is to import 30,000 tons of Russian coal before the end of this year through North Korea's Rajin port.
On the domestic front, North Korea’s acute shortage of power, caused by droughts reducing hydropower plant output and inability to import fuel due to the US trade embargo, has not only spoiled this year’s harvest, it has also interrupted rice threshing, a process that separates edible grains from stalks.
To read further about these topics and much more, please download the complimentary DPRK Business Monthly PDF.