Friday, May 4, 2012

NORTH KOREA: TOTALITARIANS IN THE NUCLEAR CLUB

Photo from Ng Han Guan/Associated Press/NYTimes
North Korea is the last Stalinist state on earth, and in 2006 it became the latest country to join the nuclear club. Over the past two decades, it has swung between confrontation and inch-by-inch conciliation with South Korea, its neighbor, and the United States, in an oscillation that seems to be driven both by its hard-to-fathom internal political strains and by an apparent belief in brinksmanship as the most effective form of diplomacy.

See complete article in the NYTimes. 
See also 'NORTH OF TOTALITARIANISM' with a compilation of photos from North Korea

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