Even dictators can’t dictate bond pricing
Kim Jong-il may have been lonely, but he always tried to make a few friends among anyone shorting South Korean bonds. His son Kim Jong-un seems bent on the same altruism towards hedge funds, announcing a missile test that could have made it tricky for borrowers from the South to tap the market. It could have, but it didn’t.
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