A look at Sinujiu Special Administrative Region, the future economic zone

Описание: (26 Sep 2002)

Sinuiju Special Administrative Region (SAR), northwest North Korea - 26 September 2002
1. Various statue of Kim Il Sung
2. Various center of Sinuiju

Sinuiju - 25 September 2002
3. Tracking shot of Sinuiju entry checkpoint
4. Various interiors Sinuiju shoe factory
5 SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Hong Gil Nam, Director of Korean Foreign Affairs for Sinuiju Department:
"I've only met Yang Bin twice, and I was a bit surprised to hear the news about the new special region. It's a new thing in the development process of our country. We wish Yang Bin well, and I hope to have a successful relationship with him."
6. Various women working in shoe factory
7. Mid shot poster on wall of shoe factory showing North Korean soldier holding grenades
8. Mid shot factory workers
9. Mid shot poster on wall of shoe factory depicting the destruction of US Capitol building in Washington
10. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Ko Jung Do, Manager of Sinuiju Department Store:
"We're not part of an axis of evil. Our country has not done anything wrong or bad to others, but the American President Bush keeps on describing it as part of an axis of evil. That makes us furious. Our great leader's style of government is not like that at all."
11. Various department store

Pyongyang - 24 September 2002
12. Wide shot Yang Bin, Chief Executive of Special Administrative Region of Sinuiju
13. Close up showing Yang Bin wearing Korean leader Kim Jong Il badge
14. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Bin, Chief Executive of Special Administrative Region of Sinuiju:
"Sinuiju is totally separate from North Korea, and totally independent. It has its own basic law, it's own legal system, and key government positions are all going to be held by foreigners."

Sinuiju - 25 September 2002
15. Wide shot pan down exterior of Sinuiju Department Store
16. Various interior Sinuiju Department Store

Pyongyang - 24 September 2002
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Dr James Hoare, Charge d'affairs, British Embassy Pyongyang:
"The government wishes to get away from the economic failures of the last several years. I don't think they're exactly clear how to do that. So what we are seeing is a series of experiments, both at the consumer price level and now in a wider area with this special administrative region, which are designed to provide a quick solution to complex problems. I think it would be very difficult for the methods chosen to produce the required answers in the short term."

Sinuiju - 26 September 2002
18. Various Sinuiju town center

STORYLINE:

The streets of Sinuiju are almost free of motorised vehicles, at night the streets are plummeted into darkness and, as elsewhere in North Korea, electricity seems to be in short supply.

This sleepy border town is the centre of the newly created Special Administrative Region (SAR), an experiment in capitalism an hour's drive from the capital Pyongyang.

Described as a small-market economy laboratory, the SAR encompasses 80 square km (50 square miles) close to North Korea's northwestern coast and along the frontier with China.

The town's residents and workers say they have heard of the establishment of the new region, announced by the North Korean government on September 12, but many seem unaware of the implications of Pyongyang's latest economic experiment.

Newly appointed SAR Chief Executive, Yang Bin, a successful Chinese businessman, said this week that much of Sinuiju would be knocked down to make way for new construction, and that the present population of the area would be moved out and replaced with North Koreans from other parts of the country.







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