North Korea citizens decision to officially report the drought in North Korea citizens internal media is remarkable, it's a signal to both domestic and foreign audience that probably something will go bad later this year. So they will probably apply for foreign aid.

Andrei Lankov

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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

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Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

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Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.

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Under Kim Jong Un, not a single policy has been implemented which would somehow damage the interests and efficiency of private businesses.

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Most foreign investments in North Korea have ended badly, but most of those people had very superficial understanding of the place and did not have insider connections, those who did, make good money, but tend to remain very silent about their success because they don't want to attract attention - from any side.

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Agriculture is much less state-run and much more private than it used to be, and the farmers who work for themselves work better and with greater efficiency, north Korea is highly unlikely to experience another famine even remotely similar to what happened in the late nineties.

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When the NIS is talking officially, they are relatively reliable. There are good reasons to believe it is true, but we cannot be 100 percent sure yet.

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The common assumption is that it's bad for stability, but I'm not so sure.

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Sony was stupid to make a movie about killing Kim Jung-un, but it was even more stupid to cave in to pressure.

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