U.S. Companies Show Little Interest in Trade with North Korea.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 14, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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Sep. 15 -- The Clinton administration's plans to open trade with North Korea would likely entail easing travel restrictions, unfreezing North Korean assets in the United States, allowing the use of credit cards, and licensing food and medicine production.

But most analysts greeted the opening yesterday with skepticism.

"The U.S. has been talking about easing sanctions, but we've never delivered," said Robert L. Suettinger, a visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. "Skepticism is going to be a part of ...

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