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North Korea, Trump and South Korea’s economy

Donald Trump’s decision to accept an invitation to visit North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, represents an extraordinary turn of events, and comes just a few months after the US president was calling his North Korean counterpart “little rocket man” and threatening the North Korean regime with “fire and fury”. In this Update, we look at how South Korea’s economy could benefit from an improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world.

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