NORTH KOREA
<i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i>
U.S. Firm to Pioneer Nation’s Imports: The hard-line Communist country will export minerals to the United States in the first such deal in 42 years, Minerals Technologies Inc. said. The New York-based company said it has signed a deal with North Korea’s Magnesia Clinker Export for a unit, Minteq International Inc., to ship tens of thousands of tons of magnesia that could cost several million dollars. Further details were not provided.
