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Article: Is capitalism making inroads, changing daily life in North Korea?(PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 14, 2006
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Don't call it a Stalinist state any more; don't even think of it any longer as a pint-sized former Soviet Union. All around the world, the times are changing, and nowhere is this transformation more quiet but also irrevocable than in the one place where you had thought change had all but been outlawed, if not imprisoned: North Korea.
This is the astonishing and almost unbelievable picture painted by one of the world's most incisive and informed experts on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The master painter is Andrei Lankov, and his cliche-shattering portrait of the land of Kim Jong Il is to be found across in the inaugural edition of "Asia Policy."
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