North Korea
"Access to mobile technology has exploded in North Korea ..."
- North Korea : Better tomorrow? [Economist] (Mar 8th 2014)
"the government is getting serious about economic reforms.
Last year it was announced that over a dozen economic-development zones around the country would be established—the kind of zones, inviting foreign investment, which set China’s economy alight in the late 1970s. Astonishingly, the government has also praised an experiment in family-based farming, seeming to hint at a loosening of the strictures of collectivised agriculture. A building boom is changing the skyline of Pyongyang, the capital. And a once-closed country is welcoming foreign visitors. In January a ski resort, Masikryong, opened its doors. It was built in record time, and supposedly to international standards. The country’s army, government institutions and decrepit enterprises are being urged to dive into their work with “Masikryong speed”.
Mr Kim is presumably desperate to be less dependent on China, a country many North Koreans resent (the new economic zones have next to no Chinese involvement).
... a mildly friendlier approach to the South"
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