As managing editor of Our team of staff reporters and correspondents around the world have been to some pretty exotic locales. But this occasion might be beyond our ability to cover. The hard-to-cover event: the First Chinese Light Industry Exhibition, scheduled for July 17-19 in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Media in China are touting this as North Korea's first-ever national trade show. China's People's Daily Online says the show will include "several hundred industrial enterprises specializing in appliances, everyday goods, hardware, plastic, and textiles."
The cost of a 3-by-3-meter booth? Just 5,000 RMB, or about $655. But it's too late to sign up -- Nina Ying Sun, one of our Akron staff reporters and our Asia specialist, said the organizer closed the booth sales on May 31.