A North Korean trading company wants foreign investors to chip in to a rubber factory on the country's east coast, according to a posting on an official government foreign trade website.
The direct, public call for outside funding -- $500,000 and an "in-kind investment of scrap & secondhand tires" -- comes as the North continues to search for ways to bolster its economy despite a sweeping array of punishing sanctions tied to its nuclear weapons program.
A North Korean trading company wants foreign investors to chip in to a rubber factory on the country's east coast, according to a posting on an official government foreign trade website.
The direct, public call for outside funding -- $500,000 and an "in-kind investment of scrap & secondhand tires" -- comes as the North continues to search for ways to bolster its economy despite a sweeping array of punishing sanctions tied to its nuclear weapons program.
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