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...government on the face of the earth today," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. "But that tells you how successfully the North Korean leadership has suppressed information that might allow outsiders to draw an independent assessment of it." Kim Choong Nam, a North Korea specialist at the East-West Center, a think tank in Hawaii, agrees: "This phone book gives us the best picture yet of how North Korea works...
...Early analysis suggests there is plenty of raw intelligence to be found in the book. For one thing, it provides an intriguing glimpse into some of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's methods of controlling his people. His government runs informant hotlines that remain open day and night in case snitches want to rat out their neighbors or colleagues. According to the academic's analysis, the hotline can be reached by dialing local area codes and then 82. The book also suggests that the ruling party has a previously unknown outlet for its relentless propaganda: cable television. Most important...
...North Korea watchers say it could take months to finish wringing the phone book for information. But already they hope for another refugee to flee with a more recent edition. "If we have ones from different years," says Kim at Hawaii's East-West Center, "we can see whether North Korea is changing." One thing they have not found is Kim Jong Il's direct line. He is unlisted...
...Kim M. McCarthy, whose Harvard e-mail address is mccarth@fas, said the loss was extremely inconvenient, causing her to lose schedules of when she was supposed to see different subjects as a research assistant in a psychology...
...question on many minds is whether Kim Jong Il, who has a history of trading friendly relations and empty promises for monetary assistance, is merely giving the world another head fake. His market reforms, according to skeptics, are designed not to liberalize the economy but to control the informal black markets that burgeoned during the famine, when the government could not feed everybody...