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The Joongang Ilbo reports: A U.S. official said yesterday that Washington would not consider goods manufactured at an industrial park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong as South Korean products in its free-trade negotiations with Seoul. “In our view, the agreement applies to goods produced only in South Korea and the United States,” a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said at a background press briefing. Asked if that position was negotiable, he said, “We...

Long-time readers of this blog know that for nearly two years, I’ve advocated aggressive economic measures against the North Korean regime that would force international finance to choose between doing business in the North and in the United States. Such sanctions would wring the most knowledgeable and best-financed investors out of North Korea until it made signficant and irreversible steps toward comporting itself with the rules by which humanity lives. Until now, the Bush Administration has failed to take strong-yet-practical...

This looks like excellent news: James Lilley, a former U.S. ambassador to Korea, said yesterday that it will be hard for the United States to import products made in the Kaesong Industrial Complex for “geographical” reasons. According to Mr. Lilley, one of the major trade issues that South Korea and the United States will face in the near future is U.S. imports of Kaesong-made products. “The United States cannot regard those goods as “˜made in South Korea’ because they were...

Could free medical care for ordinary North Koreans be one of the few good things to come from the Kaesong Industrial Park? It would if the North Korean authorities actually allowed it, but they won’t. Their engagement strategy is to insulate ordinary North Koreans from the kindness of the outside world. Meanwhile, a second plant, this one slated to make auto and semiconductor parts, is slated to crank out its first wares at Kaesong next week. The plant will eventually...

Could free medical care for ordinary North Koreans be one of the few good things to come from the Kaesong Industrial Park? It would if the North Korean authorities actually allowed it, but they won’t. Their engagement strategy is to insulate ordinary North Koreans from the kindness of the outside world. Meanwhile, a second plant, this one slated to make auto and semiconductor parts, is slated to crank out its first wares at Kaesong next week. The plant will eventually...