North Korean "Maquiladoras"

Remember all the maquiladoras that popped up on the border to exploit the US-Mexico wage gap in the 1990s? Expect the same thing as Korea tries to stay competitive with China by exploiting and collaborating with the North. What I still don't understand is why capitalists in Israel haven't found a way to mobilize their lobbying power, stabilize the situation long enough, and do the same thing in the West Bank.

You heard it here first.

For managers, a Korean paradise - International Herald Tribune

"By 2012, the industrial park is to spread over 67 square kilometers, or 26 square miles, and to employ 730,000 North Koreans, almost 8 percent of the work force in this impoverished nation, which has a total population of 23 million.'