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North Korea's Dancing Agitprop

Western visitors tell tales of propaganda-drenched state

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 3, 2007 3:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – The 2,000 Western tourists who managed to visit North Korea this year—four times as many as were allowed in 2002—offer a weirdly illuminating glimpse into the propaganda-saturated country closed to journalists, notes the Economist. Kim Jong-Il’s “Mass Games” performances—packed... Read full story »

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