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Unveiling The North Korean Economy
by Byung-Yeon Kim
(Cambridge University Press, £28.99)
NORTH Korea is a hard country to get to know. Most of the media tell of rigid state-control, malnourished people, child labour, shortages of electricity and water and the cult of personality.
A technological, political and military elite seem to live well in the capital, Pyongyang. Military spending on weapons systems and the nuclear programme are the.priorities of the government. Opponents of Kim Jong-un meet a quick end.
