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Reading ‘Gone with the Wind’ in Pyongyang

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In this August 8, 2012 photo, a library copy of the American classic novel "Gone With The Wind" sits on a table inside the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea. To come across Margaret Mitchell's 1936 Civil War epic in North Korea is to stumble over the unlikeliest of American cultural touchstones in the unlikeliest of places. In "Gone With the Wind," North Koreans found echoes of their own history and insights into the United States: bloody civil wars fought nearly a century apart; two cities - Atlanta and Pyongyang - reduced to rubble after attacks by U.S. forces; two cultures that still celebrate the way they stood up to the Yankees. If North Koreans have yet to find fortune, they haven't given up. AP/David Guttenfelder

The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book.

Posted: October 25th, 2012 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Is North Korea experimenting with change?

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In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, North Korean soldiers salute to the statue at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Memorial Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea. Thousands of students and soldiers have been brought to Pyongyang for festivities marking Youth Day on Tuesday Aug, 28, the anniversary of the founding of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, a political organization for young North Koreans. AP/Jon Chol Jin

Deep in the North Korean countryside, in remote villages that outsiders seldom reach, farmers are now said to be given nearly one-third of their harvests to sell at market prices. Collective farms are reportedly being reorganized into something closer to family farms. State propagandists are expounding the glories of change under the country’s new young leader.

Posted: September 12th, 2012 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

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