They included Kim Jong U, who had been in charge of attracting foreign investments to a free-trade zone, and Choi Yong Hae, who had links to South Korean businessmen, and who had been something of a go-between for the two Koreas.
Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.