Every piece of equipmentheading to the island is first staged on the mainland, inspected, then sealed in white plastic shrink-wrap to make it look like a creation by the artist Christo.
Shares of Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment provider ASML are heading lower Wednesday morning after the company offered some cautious commentary on the outlook for capital spending from its chip industry customers.
Yet North Korea, for its part, now denies that it has a uranium-enrichment programme, even though equipment designed for one has been found on ships heading there.