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Trucks cross the China-Korea Friendship Bridge into Dandong, North Korea. (AFP)


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People walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea’s nuclear facility, in Seoul, South Korea on January 6, 2016. (AP)


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North Korean soldiers parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AFP)


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North Korea’s Secret Weapon? Economic Growth.

North Korea’s Secret Weapon? Economic Growth.

With the United Nations imposing yet another round of sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear provocations, it’s worth asking why such penalties have been failing for more than a decade. One reason is that the North Korean economy is improving more than is...
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Workers loading a roll of steel onto a barge in Smederevo, Serbia, in June. A state-owned Chinese company bought the steel plant in the Serbian city. Credit Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press


Serbia Reaps Benefits, With Strings Attached

Serbia Reaps Benefits, With Strings Attached

SMEDEREVO, Serbia — When President Xi Jinping of China chose an industrial town on the Danube River to announce that Serbia was at the center of a $900 billion “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure initiative, it was a bold declaration that his country had set up shop...