May 07, 2024
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The highlights and hindrances of teaching N.Koreans entrepreneurship

Despite difficulties obtaining donor support, NGO trained record number of N.Koreans last year

How does one persuade donors to fund programs designed to improve North Korean business capabilities in the face of growing international condemnation of the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs?

It’s a challenge that Singaporean national Geoffrey See has been battling ever since his NGO, Choson Exchange, kicked off projects inside North Korea in early 2010, when inter-Korean relations sank to their worst point in years.

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