Across the world: DPRK

Helping hand needed

The Republic of Korea (ROK) yesterday urged the Asian Development Bank to consider investing in its impoverished northern neighbor as Pyongyang moves slowly toward denuclearization.

ROK Finance Minister Kwon O-kyu told the ADB's annual meeting that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was one of the world's poorest nations and was gradually returning from international diplomatic isolation.