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	<title>38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea</title>
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		<title>Commercial Life in North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On one training trip to North Korea this year with Choson Exchange, I enjoyed less-than-tasty fried chicken washed down with copious amounts of beer with North Koreans at a joint venture fast food restaurant. On the rooftop, chickens ran around in what might be the only locally-sourced fast food restaurant in the world. Outside, traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea after Kim Jong Il: The Risks of Improvisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il’s death was announced less than three weeks ago. But the world is surprisingly quickly getting used to the new leadership in North Korea, as if there were no concerns left at all. To provide a counterweight to this amazingly complacent mood, and the many speculations about a stable North Korean future (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reality of Tears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question consistently asked by journalists over the past weeks is whether the weeping and wailing that accompanied the death and funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is the product of stage management or a genuine outpouring of grief. In other words, how real are the tears?
To our secular and cynical Western sensibilities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea’s Big Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the death of Kim Jong Il the hopes of many people—Koreans in both the North and South as well as outside observers—have been suddenly realized, even while the North Korean public and leadership morn for various complex and contradictory reasons. Now the identification of Kim Jong Il with the North Korean system and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time For a Bold New Offer from South Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of Kim Jong Il had often been anticipated in rumors and speculation since his stroke in 2008, but when it finally happened on December 17, 2011, it was nevertheless, quite unexpected. Indeed, in the last weeks and months, with the busy schedule of the North Korean leader including visits to China and Russia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off To the Races</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant,” Frank Sinatra used to sing. The day after the memorial rally—at which Kim Jong Un stepped out smartly onto the dais ahead of the rest of the leadership, and stood looking very stern out over Kim Il sung square—things began to happen. The sound you have been hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong Il: The Lessons of Life and Death</title>
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I remember my first close encounter with Kim Jong Il in July 2000 in Pyongyang, when he briskly walked into the room in Paekhwawon Guest House, where Russian President Putin and his entourage, of which I was honored to be a part, was waiting for him. He energetically shook hands with everyone without looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea After Kim Jong Il</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of Kim Jong Il marks a watershed moment between distinct epochs in the history of North Korea, prompting intense debate over the multiple scenarios possible for the anticipated transition.
The current mass expressions of grief in North Korea may seem shocking to foreigners, but certainly cannot be written off as insincere. It is true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong Un’s Power and Policy: Current State and Future Prospects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Il died on December 17, 2011. Kim Jong Il’s era is gone and Kim Jong Un is now the new leader. How solid is Kim Jong Un’s grip on power at the moment? Can Kim Jong Un continue to consolidate his power into the future? And what kinds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on “The Party as the Kingmaker”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me there wasn’t much to be gained by nitpicking someone else’s work. Especially when people are writing under pressure and the uncertainties of breaking events, minor differences over details need to be stifled, as Archie Bunker might say. This is one of those times. As of this writing, we are [...]]]></description>
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