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...code enforced by imported European judges, not Kim's fiats, will regulate the community. Most of the drab, dilapidated buildings that line Sinuiju's quiet streets will be flattened, modern offices and factories built in their place. Pyongyang has even appointed a non-Korean?39-year-old Chinese entrepreneur Yang Bin, reportedly the second-richest man in China?to govern the new zone. Li, after being told that his role in the grand experiment involves packing his things and leaving, says impassively: "We must obey the higher authority of the country...
...grandiose white elephants, like the 105-story, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel that towers, unfinished, over the Pyongyang skyline. But if it works, new ideas and fresh money could spill over the city's whitewashed walls and cascade across the country's brainwashed citizens. "Once this succeeds," says a confident Yang, the new chief executive of the Sinuiju SAR, "the whole country may be open...
...Sinuiju gambit, however, is aimed at one of the country's few allies: China. The tightly controlled border crossing at Sinuiju will be thrown open to Chinese labor and business?which Yang's appointment is meant to entice. China offers not just investment capital. The country and its rising class of entrepreneurs can conceivably teach North Korea how to turn a crumbling communist state into an economic dynamo. After all, Beijing two decades ago launched free-trade zones to lure foreign investment as a prelude to transforming the whole country into a market economy...
...Sept. 19, 27 members of Congress wrote to Jiang to demand the release of Yang, who is a permanent U.S. resident. All the members of the Massachusetts delegation signed the letter...
...very capable scholar and a good citizen whose only interest is the welfare of China,” Zeckhauser said of Yang, who received a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard...