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...Digital invested $650,000 to open a joint-venture bicycle plant in Pyongyang. "The conditions are really favorable," says Tianjin manager Liang Tongjun, whose company was granted a 20-year monopoly on bicycle manufacturing in the North. A month after the factory opened, the Dear Leader himself paid a visit...
...North was emulating an obvious precedent: Shenzhen, the special economic zone where China first experimented with capitalism. In January 2006, Kim made a rare foreign visit, traveling by train (he reportedly abhors flying) to the booming southern Chinese city. Kim may see China as more than a path to prosperity. "To him it's an assuring message," says Mansourov. "Even if you open up economically, you can still maintain political control for his regime and his family...
...promise to dismantle its nuclear program, crippling U.S. sanctions will almost certainly continue. And South Korean presidential elections in December could usher in a new government with a less conciliatory stance toward its deadbeat neighbor. To see just how far North Korea still has to go, you need only visit the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge linking the booming Chinese metropolis of Dandong with the sooty failed economic zone of Sinuiju. Commerce between the two nations is limited to a trickle of trucks on the bridge's single lane. At night, the contrast is vividly instructive: Dandong's bustling waterfront turns...