Traffic problems have escalated at North Farm Industrial Estate in Tunbridge Wells since Marks and Spencer, John Lewis and Asda opened.
For South Korean President Park Geun-hye who had pledged to try to build trust between Seoul and Pyongyang to demonstrate a difference from the hard-line policies toward the North of the previous government its closure marks a particular setback.
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The Koryolink network, which was built in cooperation with Egypt's Orascom Telecom, marks a radical shift in policy for North Korea, which also recently began to allow tourists to enter the country with their own cellphones -- previously, visitors were required to hand over the devices upon landing in Pyongyang.
In fact, it was a similarly desperate need for funds that initially drove North Korea to borrow a total of 680 million Deutsche marks and 455 million Swiss francs in syndicated loans from nearly 100 foreign banks in the late 1970s.
For ease of visual comparison, territories are split into 12 geographical regions -- e.g. blue for North America, brown for Northern Africa -- and shading marks out specific countries.
It has also raised the risk profile across the region, compounding "a wider mood of instability across the Saharan region, " says Jon Marks, associate fellow on the Middle East and north Africa programme at Chatham House.
And Duke University out of North Carolina is also offering an online program that has earned high marks.
The new Koryolink 3G network -- jointly owned by the North Korean government and an Egyptian company -- that launched last month marks a shift in policy for Kim Jong Un's regime, which also has recently begun to allow foreigners to bring their cellphones into the country.
The assault marks a significant escalation in the long-running insurgency Nigeria faces in its predominantly Muslim north, with Boko Haram extremists mounting a coordinated assault on soldiers using military-grade weaponry.
But in the late 1990s, some of the banks wanted to capitalize on hopes at that time for a reunification between North Korea and South Korea, so they parceled some of the nonperforming loans into two tranches of 293 million Deutsche marks and 217 million Swiss francs.
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