External pressure is causing North Korea to miss out on a series of billion dollar infrastructure projects. On 14 November [2003] a multinational consortium led by BP announced in Moscow that it would route a 4,884 kilometre, or 3,035 mile, natural gas pipeline around North Korea … by laying the $17 billion pipeline on the floor of the Yellow Sea … South Korea, one destination for the Siberian gas, wanted the pipeline to go through North Korea, feeding thermal power plants along the way. This month [November] … Kedo announced the suspension of a $4.6 billion project to build two nuclear power plants in North Korea. (IHT, 24 November 2003, p. 12)
This autumn a South Korean travel agency started flying the first regular tours to [Pyongyang] … ...
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