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.

“We started our projects at the lowest point possible, shortly after the sinking of the Cheonan,” said See, referring to the 2010 incidentthat cost the lives of 46 South Korean sailors and which the