“With its residents dressed mostly in Western-style clothing and clutching mobile phones, Pyongyang today looks more like a tidy Chinese provincial city than the spartan capital of the world’s last Stalinist state.  On the other hand, the contrast between the relative affluence of the capital and the continuing poverty in the countryside is truly striking.  One wonders at what point a population increasingly connected by mobile phones and exposed to information from China and South Korea will question the regime’s claim to be a ‘Powerful and Prosperous Country.'”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/opinion/the-view-from-pyongyang-north-korea.html?_r=1

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