Media Round-up from the 12 June Summit

With the world’s attention on the US-DPRK summit in Singapore on June 12, Choson Exchange managed to share our message about how entrepreneurship is changing in North Korea, and how entrepreneurship is changing North Korea. Here are some selected media pieces from those hectic few days:

          1. The road to Choson Exchange - How we set up the first entrepreneurship training program in North Korea

• Yahoo - This organization works with North Korea’s entrepreneurs

• Asia Times - The Singaporean NGO that shapes North Korea entrepreneurs

• Aljazeera - Meet the young Singaporeans building bridges with North Korea

• ABC - Teaching entrepreneurship to North Koreans to combat economic hardship

          2. Will or Will Not North Korea Set Open Up its Economy? Our take:

• NY Times - Who wants to do business in North Korea?

• Today Online - Singaporeans who teach North Koreans business says country's paranoia needs to go to open up market

• Bloomberg - The man who teaches North Koreans about business

• Korea Times - Seoul in search of entrepreneurs for NK

• Foreign Brief - North Korea: Hermit Kingdom emerging from its shell?

• Straits Times - North Koreans upbeat about possible economic changes after planned Trump-Kim summit: Singapore-based NGO

• The Washington Post - Kim Jong Un went sightseeing in Singapore the night before Trump summit

           3. Will North Korea Denuclearize? Don’t really know, but we had to give our take too!

• The Siasat Daily - Trump-Kim Summit: Kim agrees to denuclearize the Korean peninsula

          4. Singapore and DPRK’s relations - how our neutrality and connectedness allowed the US and North Korea to meet here.

• The Washington Post - Trump and Kim will meet in Singapore. Here’s why

• Straits Times - Singapore's post-summit role as platform for economic exchanges

• PRI - Singapore helps North Korea break out in business

• NK News - Kim Jong Un takes surprise night-time tour of Singapore