The premise that has attracted hedge funds and pension funds is that North Korea can't existinisolation forever, and, like other former communist countries, will need to tap the international markets for funds.
We are pursuing a policy that includes incredibly intense punitive sanctions, unprecedented in history against Iran, of sanctions that are in place as a result of diplomatic work that has created an international consensus that did not exist prior to President Obama taking office and that has resulted, again, in unprecedented pressure and isolation for the regime in Tehran.