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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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North Korea is undergoing some startling developments - Business Insider

North Korea is undergoing some startling developments - Business Insider | real utopias | Scoop.it
The city of Chongjin, whose famine-era tragedy...
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Time to move away from simplistic thinking on North Korea - East Asia Forum

Time to move away from simplistic thinking on North Korea - East Asia Forum | real utopias | Scoop.it
Author: Eun Jeong Soh, ANU The UN needs a new strategy to address human rights violations in North Korea: a strategy that goes beyond a simplistic dichotomy
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Pyongyang is booming, but in North Korea all is not what it seems

Pyongyang is booming, but in North Korea all is not what it seems | real utopias | Scoop.it
Many western experts agree. “The regime wants the country to be modern, wants it to be prosperous, but it wants these things on its own terms,” said Marcus Noland, executive vice-president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “The government is attempting to tweak or improve the efficiency of the existing socialist or state-dominated system but it is not pursuing any fundamental reform.”
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Imperialism and The Interview: The Racist Dehumanization of North Korea - Monthly Review

Imperialism and The Interview: The Racist Dehumanization of North Korea - Monthly Review | real utopias | Scoop.it
Chronicling the Crisis of the Working Class
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North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink

North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink | real utopias | Scoop.it

Nations that chart a self-defining course, seeking to use their land, labor, natural resources, and markets as they see fit, free from the smothering embrace of the US corporate global order, frequently become a target of defamation. Their leaders often have their moral sanity called into question by US officials and US media, as has been the case at one time or another with Castro, Noriega, Ortega, Qaddafi, Aristide, Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, and others.  

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The Switchboard: North Korea makes a tablet — and it reviews pretty well. - Washington Post (blog)

The Switchboard: North Korea makes a tablet — and it reviews pretty well. - Washington Post (blog) | real utopias | Scoop.it
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The Switchboard: North Korea makes a tablet — and it reviews pretty well.
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