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...subsequent release) of two U.S. journalists for illegal entry, a spat with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (described by a Pyongyang official as looking like "a pensioner going shopping"), serious food shortages. On the face of it, 2009 appears an unlikely year for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) to woo more visitors. But according to British-run, Beijing-based Koryo Tours, a company that has been escorting groups of visitors to North Korea for 16 years, such a push is under...
Despite its flaws, GDP has proved hard to replace - if only because it provides a single number which nations can use to measure themselves against neighbors and rivals. At an OECD conference in Korea later this month, attendees will try to develop an array of measures that take into account broader definitions of well-being. They have their work cut out for them. While the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan measures its gross national happiness, no major economy has followed suit...
...cell at a North Korean university, which they regularly contact to gather information from inside the hermit state. Inspection teams have also been purging border cities where the movies are smuggled in, and even executing some smugglers in public as a warning, according to a July report by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a South Korean government-affiliated think tank...
...freer and richer neighbor have any real sway over North Korean youth is hard to say. "There are lots of stories on that from the defectors," says Lee Jong Ju, deputy spokesperson of Seoul's Ministry of Unification. "They said they can see [South] Korean soap operas in North Korea, and then that could be one of the reasons they decided to go to South Korea," says Lee. Others contend that while North Koreans may be increasingly curious about the outside world, that doesn't mean they're having fantasies about capitalist life. "It's silly to say North Koreans...
...refugees in Seoul. The shift may not have been an ideological one: Myung, who served in the North Korean police just last year, says that the regime made the decision because it couldn't afford to send so many people to prison camps. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...