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economist.com - 5/21/2009
North Korea v South Korea: A merry dance
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Ever more isolated, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il still calls the tune PRICKLY and isolated, North Korea has few enough connections to the outside world. So why keep snapping them, one by one? On May 15th, it announced that it was unilaterally tearing up wage and other agreements governing the Kaesong industrial zone, a joint North-South business project just inside North Korea. South Koreans, it says, can either lump it or leave. The 100 or so South Korean firms that employ 38,000 North Koreans ...
brontecapital.blogspot.com - 5/18/2009
A tale of two banking crises: Japan and Korea
— brontecapital.blogspot.com — Economics may be a “science” but it lacks controlled experiments. Especially in macroeconomics you can’t repeat an... experiment with one variable changed and see how the single variable changes the outcome. Economists have lots of statistical tools to ... (more) A tale of two banking crises: Japan and Korea

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online.wsj.com - 5/22/2009
Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil
— online.wsj.com — A Glimpse at North Korea See some of the sites "North Korea Uncovered "users have identified.... (more) Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift ...

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nkeconwatch.com - 5/28/2009
North Korean Economy Watch
— nkeconwatch.com — Koryo Tours has been in the North Korea tour business for many years. They have helped expand... tourism in the DPRK and made three great documentaries in the country: The Game of Their Lives , A State of Mind , and Crossing the Line . They offer some ... (more) North Korean Economy Watch
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MSNBC
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The North Korean Nuclear Test — Moon of Alabama
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