[SFDXA] New DXCC Entity?

[Bill Marx]

This came in from Don W3AZD:
 - Bill W2CQ


> Caveat .....   I do NOT particularly think this will result in a new DXCC
> entity ... but, who knows?  And no, I don't care to debate it one way or
the
> other.  It's just fun to think about.
>
> Here's the story:
>      According to an article by Howard W. French for the New York Times
News
> Service (check your local newspaper), North Korea will develop a new
special
> administrative zone in the Sinuiju area near its border with China.
Unlike
> the largely failed Rajin-Sonbong zone (I think that's where the P51BH
> operation was held), this new zone will be an "international financial,
> trade, commercial, industrial zone" to be "free of central government
> interference for a period of 50 years.  The new zone will apparently have
> the power to "operate its own legal and economic system and will even
issue
> its own passports."
>      According to the article, the zone will be run by a Chinese
> businessman, Mr. Bin Yang who is also thought to be the second wealthiest
> person in China.  Two items about Mr. Yang: he now holds Dutch citizenship
> and, in a separate press release on the (North) Korean Central News Agency
> website in Japan [http://www.kcna.co.jp/] has just been appointed
> "Governor" of the new Sinuiju Special Administrative Region by the DPRK's
> Supreme Peoples' Assembly.
>       Now, if they'll just get set up, issue a few licenses themselves,
get
> an ITU prefix allocation, and establish their own IARU national society,
> we'll all be chasing a new one that didn't result from some civil war.
:-)
>
> Cheers,
> Sandy W7BX@arrl.net