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• Asia Times - Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism'

  http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FL07Dg01.html
  Documents how the major peculiarities of Stalinism are slowly disappearing from North Korea, and how the "Hermit Kingdom" is not as hermetic as the government would like.

• Asia Times Online - North Korea's Antique Food Rationing

  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GA15Dg01.html
  Describes the history and de facto collapse of the North Korean government's Public Distribution System (PDS) which rationed food for a majority of its people.

• BBC News - N Korea Envoys 'Smuggled Drugs'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4083977.stm
  Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country.

• BBC Radio 3: On Location in North Korea

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/onlocation/northkorea.shtml
  Listen to this BBC radio documentary recorded in North Korea and view photos of host Andy Kershaw's visit to the country.

• CNN Factsheet - One of the World's Most Secretive Nations

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/nkorea.facts/
  North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.

• Ethnologue - Languages of North Korea

  http://www.ethnologue.com/country/KP
  Information about the living languages of the country including population, region, classification, dialects and alternate names.

• Los Angeles Times - North Korean Facade of Self-sufficiency Can't Hide Signs of Hunger

  http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/02/world/fg-nampo2
  Despite efforts to put up a front, North Korea is spiraling down to another famine and mass starvation.

• New YorkTimes - Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/asia/10koreans.html
  Interviews with eight people who recently left North Korea paint a haunting portrait of desperation and political resentment.

• Stories from the People's Paradise, North Korea

  http://www.gluckman.com/PageNK.htm
  Journalist Ron Gluckman reports on slices of life in North Korea: the 1966 soccer squad that nearly reached the World Cup finals, a museum of lavish birthday gifts to former leader Kim Il Sung, stories of defectors, a train trip to Pyongyang, a visit to the DMZ, Pyongyang's only disco, the state film studio and North Korea's version of the Internet.

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