On October 26th 1967 he had to eject himself from his aircraft in the sky above North Vietnam, breaking his left arm, his right arm in three places and his right knee.
Neil McLean of Leeds City Region, a local enterprise partnership, said the improved connectivity would be a "transformational shot in the arm to the economic fortunes of the North".
The US and other regional allies fear North Korea is working to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to arm a missile, though it is not believed to have achieved this yet.