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North Korea’s Two Tier Economy.

The World Affairs article, “The Defector’s Tale: Inside North Korea’s Secret Economy,” by Kim Kwang Jin provides a rare first-hand account of how the economy of the world’s most enigmatic totalitarian state, North Korea, actually works. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s brought devastation to the largely dependent, and derivative, North Korean […]

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