this is the view into north korea from the chinese border city of don dong here interest in the events that led to the extraordinary meeting of the north korean leader and the us president has been huge for many locals it was about business as much as politics. where. if the meeting between trump and kim is successful it will be great for us people and dong because we do a lot of cross border trade. is mainly by cross border trade that's what my husband does he had investments in north korea so we really hope that the country opens up soon. for a country as isolated as north korea maintaining ties with china has proven to be an economic lifeline look at the numbers and you'll see why in twenty fifteen north korea imported goods worth almost three and a half billion dollars eighty five percent of them came from china indian and russian imports together accounted for a further five and a half percent with countries including mexico and the philippines making up the rest. turning to north korean exports now they were worth two point eight billion dollars eighty three percent of them went

that's a long way off what we're already seeing is a surge in property demand in the chinese city of don dong got forgers north korea so clearly there is at least the sec spectate and that north korea will open up more economically there's also enough reporting to suggest that foreign companies have started setting up internal committees that vacated the possibility of exploring doing business in north korea only they're having to be very careful because they run the risk of violating u.s. sanctions and also there's a problem that north korea itself has a history of seizing the assets of foreign companies that have tried to do business within its borders companies from japan south korea so while the prospect is intriguing for investors that they're still going to have to be pretty brave. to decrease geopolitical risk of course is good for investors bizarre they really science it can you see that. market reaction has been kind of anti-climactic in fact equity markets performed much better in the run up to the summit than after the fact. so now that they've had time to review of the agreement a