North Korea has a long history of cheating international investors that stretches back to the 1970s. The more recent cases of the Xiyang Group and Orascom indicate what was already clear to experts: the North Korean government can be highly predatory in the way it deals with the outside world as well as its own citizens.

However, the North Korean government can take real steps to remedy this, and help to improve its standing with international investors, especially in China and South Korea, but also in the Western world.

Creating structures that will help to