As the Choi Soon-sil scandal has unfolded over the past several months the Korean public’s dissatisfaction with major Korean conglomerates known as chaebols has become second only to Park Geun-hye herself.

A number of media outlets linked the drop in the KOSPI and the value of the won to North Korea’s nuclear test, but to what extent is this actual causality or a coincidence?

Earlier this year North Korea made headlines when a state-run tourism website endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump only a few weeks after the billionaire stated he would speak with Kim Jong-un.

As policymakers around the world look to ease the impact of the financial shock from Brexit through further fiscal stimulus and monetary easing, it is vital that they not discount the pivotal role politics plays in managing an economy and how the anti-global integration phenomenon can change the domestic political landscape.

In anticipation of the disclosure of all 214,000 businesses in the Panama Papers next month, there are three ways this new information can help to strengthen efforts to pressure North Korea.

To what extent should financial losses coinciding with North Korean provocations be considered as wholly isolated from market trends or at least marginally interconnected?