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The ups and downs of sending foreign media into North Korea

Information dissemination should serve as an impetus for reform, not regime change

In late December 2017, an important gathering took place in the North Korean capital. The secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) cells met, in the presence of Kim Jong Un and other top dignitaries.

The Supreme Leader delivered a speech at the meeting, filled with the usual dry and ossified North Korean idioms, but its content left no doubt: Kim Jong Un and his advisors are seriously worried about the spread of information about the outside world which continues within North Korea.

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