[KS] Tumen

Rüdiger Frank h0727cej at rz.hu-berlin.de
Thu Dec 17 03:22:45 EST 1998


At 21:19 16.12.98 EST, you (Ejkmrm at aol.com) wrote:
>Ask anybody who has ever visit Najin-Sonbong (no longer called a 'free' trade
>zone), you'd be crazy to invest there.

This is a really interesting point: What happens with the FETZ or
Najin-Sonbong or the whole Tumen River Area Development Project? You hear
of some minor investments from time to time, in September there was the
yearly meeting, but what is really going on? Is the project dead, or is it
alive? How are the prospects (not the whishes of friends or opponents)? And
we should not forget, there are at least two more countries engaded in it
(China and Russia), not to forget about Japan and South Korea, so it is not
a North Korean problem alone. 

If anybody on this list has an idea, please share it with us.Thank you,

Rudiger Frank
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