Comments on: Anyone for North Korea? http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/10/12/anyone-for-north-korea.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Devonshire-Ellis http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/10/12/anyone-for-north-korea.html/comment-page-1#comment-32699 Chris Devonshire-Ellis Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:13:38 +0000 http://www.china-briefing.com/blog/2007/10/12/anyone-for-north-korea.html#comment-32699 Gosh a long time since I've seen this article. The link to the Time piece and the North Korea back issue of China Briefing take me back awhile. Gosh a long time since I’ve seen this article. The link to the Time piece and the North Korea back issue of China Briefing take me back awhile.

]]> By: Giles Weatherspoon http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2007/10/12/anyone-for-north-korea.html/comment-page-1#comment-3735 Giles Weatherspoon Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:08:44 +0000 http://www.china-briefing.com/blog/2007/10/12/anyone-for-north-korea.html#comment-3735 Great Quote by Chris in that Time Magazine article: A few years ago, Chris Devonshire-Ellis, a Beijing-based business and tax consultant, was in the bar at Pyongyang's Koryo Hotel when he ran into another foreigner. "The guy's name was Vlad," Devonshire-Ellis says. "He'd come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns out, they were his team of bodyguards. The North Koreans paid him in cash — 1 million in U.S. dollars — and that's why he needed the bodyguards. He was comfortable doing business with the North Koreans. He said they always paid. But I must say, the guards with machine guns may be a bit much for the average Western businessman." "A bit much...." Hahahahahahaha great post thanks Great Quote by Chris in that Time Magazine article:

A few years ago, Chris Devonshire-Ellis, a Beijing-based business and tax consultant, was in the bar at Pyongyang’s Koryo Hotel when he ran into another foreigner. “The guy’s name was Vlad,” Devonshire-Ellis says. “He’d come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns out, they were his team of bodyguards. The North Koreans paid him in cash — 1 million in U.S. dollars — and that’s why he needed the bodyguards. He was comfortable doing business with the North Koreans. He said they always paid. But I must say, the guards with machine guns may be a bit much for the average Western businessman.”

“A bit much….”

Hahahahahahaha great post thanks

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