Thursday, August 24, 2017

NK Ports

Been listening to a Facebook video interview by a Buzzfeed journalist:
the subject, North Korea, as seen by a French national who has made
a career of organizing visits to the country, and lectures as a university specialist.
Not sure what to make of it. Items that stand out for me:

- North Koreans are genuinely committed to developing nuclear arms; they see
it as their salvation.
- South Korean businessmen would like to get in on the current economic boom
in that country.
- The ports of North Korea are of strategic importance for world trade.
- North Korea is a transit economy for its powerful neighbors, and allows them to trade
with certain regions without leaving a trace. This serves to teach the North, who see
what is going through.
- North and South K need to work out a peace arrangement between themselves,
without their pachydermic allies.
- The North Korean language is a clean version of Korean, without American loan words.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/julesdarmanin/deux-specialistes-repondent-a-toutes-vos-questions-flippees?utm_term=.krzPOw8ZG#.xqAnbdvp2


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