Sunday, October 13, 2002
Latest rumor on the proposed Special Administrative Region in Sinuiju. A South Korean newspaper is reporting that former South Korean Prime Minister Park Tae-joon (Pak T'ae-jun) has been asked by the DPRK to manage the region. A former president of POSCO, Park would seem to be in some ways a more sensible choice than the now discredited Yang Bin. On the other hand, a South Korean industrialist and politician running an operation in North Korea? Who would have thought?
