Recent signs of progress and reform slowly emerging from within the DPRK such as the “leap day deal” have been hampered by the North Korea’s Unha-3 rocket launch and its increasing vitriol targeted at South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.  The fluid and often hostile nature of politics on the Korean Peninsula, along with strict international sanctions, has meant that foreign economic investment into the DPRK has been extremely limited for some time.

But to assume business in the DPRK is impossible or impractical is simply incorrect. In this interview, NKNews speaks to Roger Barrett, Marketing manager of Korea Business Consultants