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It’s no fun being a press secretary. Just ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell. You have to put up with incessant questioning about Dennis Rodman. Then there’s that bit about Pirate Bay, a torrent based file sharing website that often runs afoul of international copyright laws. You’ve probably never heard [...]
Last month the Wilson Center’s North Korea International Documentation Project put out a fascinating new paper, “New Evidence on North Korean Economic Planning, 1962-1978.” The title is misleading: little attention in the 11 translated mostly Eastern European diplomatic documents is addressed to planning per se, though there is considerable material on the nature of North [...]
The other day I noticed that Aidan Foster-Carter had posted a fascinating propaganda video of Kim Il-sung’s 1975 tour of Romania, Bulgaria, Algeria, Mauritania, and the then-Yugoslavia, featuring, among other things, footage of the Great Leader dancing in the streets: Balázs Szalontai, who actually knows what he is talking about adds, “This is funny enough, [...]
