What would a more open North Korea mean for investors?

Focus on relations between Pyongyang and the world

Sally Macdonald, head of Asian equities at Marlborough Fund Managers, assesses the implications of proposed talks between the US and North Korea.

President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un might soon face each other across a negotiating table. Aside from all the usual questions about whether it will actually happen and whether North Korea might really get rid of its nuclear weapons, investors are left wondering what this might mean for them. Despite talk of peninsula reunification, the most sensible first step would be for the North to stand alone as a normal country in its own right. This would serve the interests of all its neighbours and the US and is probably the most sensible first goal. Liontrust's Williams: Why Korea is on t...