By: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Wall Street Journal has an interesting and thoroughly researched report out today, on North Korea’s use of a technique to synthetically produce synthetic fuels ...
The Nautilus Institute has published a report on energy supply in the DPRK by David F. von Hippel and Peter Hayes. You can read it here. Here is a small section of the paper: Overall energy use p...
The Nautilus Institute has put together an amazing research paper on the DPRK’s energy sector. I cannot understate the value of the quality/quantity of facts/figures/tables in this research. Yo...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/12/18/foundations-of-energy-security-for-the-dprk-1990-2009/
UPDATE 43 (2015-6-17): Gazprom official claims pipeline not feasible. According to NK News: The deputy CEO of Russia’s Gazprom told reporters that connecting South Korea to Russian gas supplies...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/10/04/russia-korea-gas-pipeline-compendium/
According to the UNDP (2012-9-24): In Hanchon, a district in Pyongwon county of South Pyongan province, the small wind energy project team visited the houses of two farmers Mr. Ri Chum Uk and Mr...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/09/24/undp-wind-power-project/
Andrei Lankov writes in the Korea Times: In 2010, the volume of trade between these two countries was merely $110 million. As international trade goes, this volume is tiny. By comparison, in the ...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/09/27/lankov-on-dprk-russian-economic-relations/
Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2011-9-7 An article entitled, “Joint energy project on the agenda” was featured in the KCNA on August 31, which elaborated on the agreement reached be...
UPDATE 12 (2011-8-31): The North Koreans have made a short documentary of Kim Jong-il’s trip to Russia. I have uploaded it to YouTube in three parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. The North Korea...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/08/31/kim-jong-il-is-in-russia/
Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2011-8-24 Kim Jong Il’s visit to Moscow on August 20 is sparking interest for the future of economic cooperation between the two countries. According to...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/08/24/the-dprk-and-russia-to-discuss-construction-of-gas-pipelines/
Imports from North Korea: Existing Rules,Implications of the KORUS FTA, and the Kaesong Industrial Complex Mark E. Manyin, Coordinator, Jeanne J. Grimmett, Vivian C. Jones, Dick K. Nanto, Michael...
https://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/06/19/recent-dprk-publications/