by Apollo » Tue May 31, 2005 10:02 pm
The North Koreans are as happy to sell themselves to the Americans as anyone else.
A few years back, my company was heavily involved in the mobile phone testing business, just after Motorla baled out of their Scottish assembly operations.
There's a long story, but bottom line was that we went out there to try and get a contract to carry out their testing, since they had all the assembly, but hadn't gobbled up the test options.
They are very, very smart people, and had cutting edge technology in place, way in advance of our kit, and it was being used on the most recent cellphones available then.
The most interesting point was that despite apparently meeting with companies with very Korean sounding names, when you read the small print of their names and contracts, they were really just outposts of companies like Motorola, who had supplied all their facilities, technology and equipment.
They are absorbing the West, Europe, America, whatever you want to call it, and because the West only lets the high profile stuff like their nuclear smokescreen into the news, most people are unaware of what is happening.