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...sailed to North Korea last month with Peace Boat, a Tokyo-based ngo that sponsors trips to the world's trouble spots, hoping to promote grassroots exchanges. The trip offered the largest contingent of Japanese to visit North Korea in modern times a rare glimpse of the cloistered Stalinist state. It also afforded ordinary Japanese citizens an opportunity to experience what Junichiro Koizumi, their Prime Minister, will undoubtedly face when he makes his highly publicized pilgrimage to North Korea on Sept. 17: myriad and pointed reminders from North Korean officials of Japan's wartime atrocities and the need...
Late one night this summer, an anonymous North Korean slipped across the Tumen River into China. He risked death if collared?but so do all of the desperate souls trying to escape the world's last Stalinist hellhole. What distinguished this man from his compatriots?dozens get across the border every month?was an incredibly rare item that he had stashed in his luggage: a phone book available only to high-ranking North Korean officials...
...Hermit state, international pariah, charter member of the "axis of evil"?North Korea is hardly an obvious place for long-term investments like tree farms. The decrepit Stalinist economy depends on international handouts to prevent widespread starvation. The Dear Leader?strongman Kim Jong Il?runs the country like a medieval fief. But Savage is confident that his $23 million, 20,000 hectare Paulownia plantation south of Pyongyang will pay off. His Singapore-based company, Maxgro Holdings, is investing $5 million in North Korea this year, and he even has plans to build a resort there, complete with a 70-room...
...seems like looking-glass logic: if people can't afford food, raise prices. But that's what North Korea has done recently, in what could be an epochal shift away from the impoverishment of the country's Stalinist economy. The government acknowledged that market forces are, to a degree, being allowed to function in place of a system based on rationing and subsidies. Farmers' markets, for example, have been allowed to raise rice prices more than 50-fold, equaling black-market prices. To cover the increased living costs, the government is lifting wages as much as 30-fold, but free...
...moving toward a world in which the star's image is controlled more tightly than a Stalinist party congress, a world in which the ideal picture is Jennifer Lopez making an entrance at the Grammys, a formula as carefully stage-managed as a perp walk. Either that or it's some spread of the stars at home, full of bogus informality and contrived intimacies. See enough pictures of some starlet flipping a flapjack, and in no time, you're longing to see Sean Penn giving you the finger. When you're ready, Galella has quite a few of those...