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DPRK blues: Water shortages and going shopping in Pyongyang

Haemaji is full of things that I'd never seen in North Korea: smoked salmon, couscous, and Diet Coke

This is the third part of a weekly series written by a former development worker in North Korea. Read part one here and part two here.

AUGUST 2012

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