Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts FPRI Scholar Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Quoted in The Los Angeles Times

FPRI Scholar Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Quoted in The Los Angeles Times

FPRI Scholar Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Quoted in The Los Angeles Times


The Los Angeles Times

Beachfront, five-star hotels? Skyscrapers just blocks from Kim Il Sung Square? 

North Korea is racing forward with major development projects some experts believe are aimed at expanding a market for rented or privately owned real estate to help fortify the finances of Kim Jong Un’s regime against the bite of sanctions over its nuclear program. 

A swelling market for private property doesn’t sound very socialist, and it’s not. 

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