'Comprehensive economic partnership needed to boost North Korean economy'
Published on: Wednesday 15 May 2019
Signing an inter-Korean trade agreement could be the first step towards helping North Korea's economy grow, according to a state-run think tank's study released Tuesday. Given two precedents whereby North Korea comprehensively revised its laws following a spike in trade, an export-oriented policy with the aim to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) will be the most helpful way to grow the moribund economy of the isolationist regime, it said.
