Editors Note: This interview was conducted prior to North Korea’s fourth nuclear test and subsequent rocket launch

North Korea may not seem the best candidate for a business partner.

In fact, it has many issues businessmen may find uninviting —inconvenient immigration control, rigid party bureaucracy and global notoriety. Yet none of them have deterred a Swiss businessman from doing business there.

Daniel Marbot does a variety of business with North Korea. His main area of business lies within textiles, especially silk, but he also discussed introducing German power generators into North Korea