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In a post last month analyzing Kim Jong-un's speech on land management, I quoted an earlier speech by Kim Jong-il in which he extolled the flattening the fields of Phyongan Province "into regular shapes like a checkerboard and in a sweeping manner" that would sever the connection between cultivators and traditional patterns of land tenure. Curtis Melvin, proprietor of the always informative North Korea Economy Watch, passed along the before and after pictures above. Click on them for magnification, and check out Curtis's blog for more photos and commentary.
