 The zone is slated to be a manufacturing, tourism, and transportation hub.However, some analysts think the special zone is more of a project for North Korea to experiment with the capitalist economy rather than use it as basis of transforming North Korea's economy.From 1993 to 2012, there was one single law titled ‘Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the Rason Economic and Trade Zone’, which did not mention specific details of business environment, leaving foreign investors with many questions.