live from burbank this is news the no in morning bright in myanmar leads to the arrest of its leaders and a military takeover from sons of chief and several other senior officials are reportedly thing held by the military communication lines have been shut down as myanmar's senior general place a state of emergency also coming up master tensions during another day of rage in russia police crackdown on protesters demanding the release of jailed kremlin critic in the founding of a rest thousands in the least 50 cities across the country also coming up

a big boost for the a use troubled 19 in fact seen roll out after bracing for massive vaccine shortfalls being used officials to secure a commitment for millions more dutch astra zeneca. and in the bundesliga toddy treble 3 goals 3 points news them into 3rd place on the table. i'm at the howard welcome we start with breaking news from me and now where the army says it's declared a state of emergency after detaining government officials including de facto party leader aung sang suu kyi the move comes after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military which raised fears of an impending could the army is disputing the result of no. vendor selection which one

since you cheese party won in a landslide last week man last election commission rejected the allegations the military announced its takeover by the news channel it owned in man. city in order to perform scrutiny on the voter lists and take actions. of the nation's law making it governance and jurisdiction is handed over to the commander in chief according to the 2008 constitution article $419.00 well has been widespread international condemnation of the military takeover in manama the new secretary of state anthony blinken the u.s. expect expressed grave concern over the reports and warned me and must military to reverse its actions immediately and the un security secretary general antonio terrorists released a statement strongly condemning the detention of one son sujit president you when

mint and other political leaders in vietnam he said the developments are a serious blow to democratic reforms in. i'll dive bomb is a journalist who spent many years reporting from mine mine joins us now from kuala lumpur dave vague reports of a military coup but things are moving quickly now what more can you tell us. yeah well as you said many political leaders have been detained this includes state councilor on some suchi who is the de facto leader of the civilian government the president when me and several regional chief ministers also along with some political activists detained inside the country as you said the army has been complaining about fraud in the november elections. some 2 cheese nationally for democracy political party won 83 percent of the available seats an election that was really seen as a referendum on her government which came into power 5 years ago in

2016 now it's really important to point out though that the army. the constitution that mia mark has this is a military draft constitution and the army does not answer to the civilian side of government here they control the security forces independently but obviously this is something that is really of great concern to the whole international community especially look at the fact that made them are after decades of nearly 50 years of military rule transition began in 2011 and people were really hoping that this transition would continue. this obviously changes the game on this the military central a dive you spoke about a little bit but let's do some more and still such a powerful force in mind as you point out why it wouldn't feel threatened threatened enough to make these dressed. it will say really

they never really like the power that aung sang suu kyi was able to command in terms of respect from the people they've always been i've their keep my confidence and she spent roughly 15 years under house arrest when the country was led by a military junta now if you look at this the senior general the commander in chief of the armed forces senior gentleman on long he because of his age 65 is set to retire this year it's been well known that he really has had i on becoming the country's president and then with a landslide election. victory an election by aung sun suu kyi this really put a damper on any hopes that he had of this the army was of course raising broad accusations in the elections but the elections commission and ma'am are refuted those so clearly. maybe his goals here we are speculating to some degree here but obviously things he had ion were not looking like he could legitimately get

there. from kuala lumpur thanks so much for the update sure. on sunday demonstrators in russia defied government warnings to stay home and took to the streets for a 2nd weekend they're calling for the release of detained opposition leader alexei navalny and in to corruption rights groups said that more than 5000 protesters were arrested in at least 50 cities across russia. they were warned but they marched anyway anti-government protesters all over russia demanding the release of opposition leader alex saying of all me they defied a ban by the kremlin the response was brutal and a show of force many were arrested some were beaten some hit with 2 select devices . over here in moscow alone thousands marched constantly changing their route in an attempt to evade the police some gathered outside the prison were all like scene of ali is being held for many of them the protests are about more than

just the opposition leader's arrest protesters also say they are marching against corruption and for more democratic freedoms in russia but also calling in a political battle for used to being told what to do being controlled but young people used to organizing themselves that's why i came here today because i wanted to take in what is happening in my country you watch over go ready it's a disgrace. they've stolen everything from us. i live near oil and gas fields and they're just standing is all that i mean i have a 2 year old son and if putin stays in power for the next 16 years as he's climbing through then my son will grow up with him and i don't think anything will come of it before you do it. moscow was still asleep sunday when protests started in russia's far east in siberia as dawn spread across russia phone of on the rallies spanned across the country 11 time zones but so did the forceful response by the

authorities. russia's 2nd largest city st petersburg was no exception. for many people here this is the 1st time they have ever attended a protest until recently they didn't care about alexina volley but his arrest at a moscow airport on return from germany outraged to many russians. some call this russia's most aggressive and fear inducing nationwide operation but others say the government's attempts to overwhelm the protests might actually fuel the flames of the russian opposition and the voices calling for change. your opinion says drugmaker astra zeneca has agreed to make up part of the vaccine shortfall announced earlier this month the drug maker said it was slashing supplies

to the e.u. by 60 percent because of production problems you know it's been triggered a bit of blood between brussels astra zeneca will now deliver 40000000 doses in the 1st quarter 9000000 more than last week's offer you officials were pushing the drug company to uphold the original delivery weren't. so where will all the extra doses come from the correspondent battery good has more from busts the road certainly not come. from british to rezone so seneca because also great britain now has an export ban on vaccines so it's most likely that as a nickel recalculated its original delivery plan and is now saying that the yeast in the belgian and the dutch company a bigger than estimated so that they can promise a little bit more but it's still only house of the amount that was or originally bolted from the european union for the 1st quarter and also the other companies

making behind was the. delivery so it's the struggle to keep the time to. germany and austria offering to help portugal deal with one of the world's worst 19 outbreaks after new cases have spiked that germany's military is sending medical aid and doctors austria is preparing to take in some of portugal's critically ill patients and portuguese doctors say the situation is becoming desperate. tight checks at portugal's border is at this entry point into spain only those with a valid reason are allowed through. portugal had seen a period of relatively relaxed restrictions now people are confined to their homes except for essential outings nursery schools shops and cafes a shot the government has entered crisis mode. where i think it could be even

stricter there are still too many people on the streets. because there are many portuguese still haven't understood that we've gone from being a good corona country to one of the worst on ground example source it'll be all. portugal's intensive care units a straining some hospitals are running out of beds for covert 1000 patients others are short of medical staff or oxygen supplies long lines of ambulances have formed outside some clinics many patients have to wait hours until doctors decide whether they can be admitted and where. we have never before treat ours like we're doing now sometimes we're having to treat people in the ambulances as it was authorities say the highly infectious virus variant 1st found in britain has caused heart of all cases in greater lisbon some patients have been airlifted from overstretched mainland hospitals to the madeira islands more than a 1000 kilometers away. and there are some of the other stories making headlines

around the world. after months of silence india's prime minister narendra modi is condemning the country's long running protests against an agricultural reforms those that thomas have been demonstrating for more than 3 months since took a deadly turn last tuesday thousands of families descended on the capital delhi and clashed with police one person died and hundreds were injured. a major winter storm has crossed the north east of the united states blanketing cities including washington d.c. in several centimeters of snow and causing travel disruptions the national weather service warned more snow was expected on monday as the storm moved north towards new york. in this league football now and news of an incredible trouble for the surprise team of the league this season that being both spoke 3 goals against freiburg meant 3 points and

a move into 3rd place. conn of intimidation of the wolves i'm beaten at home this season and they want everyone to know about it. when 5 books struggle to neutralize a corner 20 minutes into the game the los pounds thanks to john anthony brooks. the ball and it right at his feet. the u.s. international smash hit home for his 2nd goal of the season. the hosts came knocking again 20 minutes later out of the course this time to strike a demagogue spork seed with his 13th goal this season the credit goes to a quick thinking and not the stephan who had the vision to play it in from being watched. but the wolves were hungry for more yani yeah had made it 3 known minutes before the end. they needed baku with the assist

and i'll get out how to do was tap. it and. one spoke defend their fortress and jump to that and the table. well meanwhile a pair of goals from midfield a modest both handed in their 1st win this time in almost a year of scored both in the 1st half against beautiful the 2nd one while standing almost stationary its goals moved to cologne toward a 31 victory when moved the billy goats one point clear of the relegation zone for now bill if elbow falls to 6 think plights. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. as the military says it has taken control of the country and declared a state of emergency has also detained the country's defect to leave that want some soup and other senior politicians military is disputing the results november's election was fussy she's. watching the news up next

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decades on the topic of north. area remains a touchy subject. the world has passed judgement the country is beyond repair our preconceived ideas about the democratic people's republic of north korea remain firmly in place the in a radical orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. a red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose courtly appearances topped with a singular haircut. and then there's the country's nuclear arsenal a threat that makes the self-proclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. when it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the country's people find themselves in the hyperbole seems rather inappropriate.

we're often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember it's probably fake. someone once insisted to us that there were no high rises in pyongyang. a disorienting claim given that one of us was living on the 24th floor of a building on quite a box street at the time. but. this film was shot over a period of 8 years by 3 people one of us is

a translator of korean. between us. we made more than 40 trips to north korea. but the film does not show prison camps or rocket launch pads that's for benton as our images of soldiers construction sites shopping malls gambling pictures of people who do not have enough to eat and pictures of people who are eating avoiding these images is harder than it might seem. entering north korea is still complicated but foreigners are permitted to travel and explore the country although they always have a local minder. visitors are not required to proclaim their loyalty to the state nor do they only see what the state permits them to see. and it's a myth that you'll never hear laughter in north korea.

police. as soon as we leave the city the roads are riddled with cracks and potholes. the bumpy journey is hard on drivers and vehicles. that could explain why broken

down trucks and buses. are a common sight. depending on the season the workers in the fields might be harvesting wheat rice or potatoes although much of the country is mountainous the rest is primarily devoted to farming. north korea hopes to become economically self-sufficient someday every square meter of available land is put to use even on the steep hillsides. but only barely 20 percent of the land is arable. for. this factory was not films in 1920 but in

2016 using a small camera while exploring the city of homs home. as so often in north korea appearances are deceiving. this is the country's largest fertilizer factory which kim il sung honored with more than 30 visits. it's recently been modernized in a bid to increase the productivity of the country's co-operative farms. co-operative farms like this one with its familiar oxcarts geese and ducks and the omnipresent red flags. another visit to a collective farm a year later. it's raining and everyone has gone to seek shelter. the productivity chart proudly displays the farm's eels. we

take shelter in the living room of one of the farm workers she tells us about the bitter cold winters hot summers and the fact breaking work in the rice fields her son is 14 small for his age she admits but the family has been through hard times. her son was born just as the great famine was ending. behind her one of the country's ubiquitous historical melodramas is playing on t.v. . then she launches into a vivid description of her visits to pyongyang. we sense here we're going to get an addition to the muslim of the great need as i visited the museum of the revolution the amusement park near the neatest birthplace the revolutionary mount a cemetery the science and technology museum and the grand people study house. i went everywhere was.

anyone from the provinces who visits the capital comes here 1st the house where kim il sung was born the birthplace of the republic. and this is where it all started they say. the great leaders training as a revolutionary the resistance against the japanese the struggle against the evil landowners and collaborators. it's a story that's very familiar to people here. and as kim il sung was the son of an ordinary peasant he's also venerated as a role model. this is a place of pilgrimage year round in the winter the buildings and grounds are decked in sober white. during our visit and 2011 we 1st saw a local visitors wearing brightly colored winter coats imported from china.

by 2015 the classes of schoolchildren are wearing brand name sweat pants even though their sneakers don't quite yet make the grade. september brings the color of autumn and a pumpkin on the patched roof. n.p.r. everything is bigger more modern more beautiful we were told by the woman from the collective farm. the city has more of everything more light more shops more food more housing more work more education more culture who wouldn't want to live here. the capitol is more than the epicenter of the state it's an icon. our farmer would probably have been told that these exemplary buildings are home to exemplary citizens scientists soldiers civil servants. some of the

most eminent live on the glossy numerate or future scientists treat. for a farmer from a village without so much as a paved road this would be an impressive sight. and the people who live here seem to have plenty of time for leisure activities. our visitor from the collective farm couldn't help but be dazzled by these high rises the most famous of which looks like an atom when viewed from above. and by the new district springing up around the city built with the labor of the country soldiers and workers.

but it would be very unlikely that our visitor would ever set foot in one of these apartments reserved for the most worthy citizens. it's perfectly neat and tidy for the residents have fled the camera there's a computer cell phone books and a sewing machine. the balcony offers a view across the city in the midst of a real estate boom there's an abundance of color quite the contrast to the gray that dominated here just 20 years ago. this real estate boom has given rise to a black market in pyongyang and other large cities. when the state awards a faithful follower with a new apartment they pass on the old one to the highest bidder for a choice location prices can easily top $100000.00 and only a fraction of that is tax that ends up in state coffers karl marx might have called this the primitive accumulation of capital. of visitors tour might end with

a trip to an amusement park or a water park one of kim jong un's priorities is building playgrounds for the people . the entrance fee equivalent of 2 euros isn't cheap by local standards but everyone mingles and enjoys themselves even the adults get into the swing of things. so do something like i came with my group but i don't know where my coworkers are. now i'm looking for them. who are members and usually cover local sports night.

time as good mood out there you had to be there i work at a large coal mine an hour away from pyongyang i can't come often because of my work . going slow to a little today we visited the great leaders muscly him so i stop by here and i like to come to pyongyang. relax time after having fun like this work comes more easily i. want what are you looking at go play the fool. we've never been abroad but now we have lots of water parks even at home in our province north of cuba is more you didn't look. so carnival modifies we will become the best in the world without anyone's help just by our own hands but with the title. i any more questions where the best the family. were. some of the rural visitors seem

a bit lost in the crowd home but since many people don't know how to swim no one really notices. but on state television nowadays people can even tune into swimming lessons i. i. the sun is beginning to set a good time to visit the city's main amusement park beyond pyongyang's arch of triumph. like everywhere in north korea filming anything to do with the military is banned but hard to avoid because soldiers are everywhere. i some might call this nothing but bread and circuses but it's far more than that there's hardly a north korean who doesn't dream of living in pyongyang and every resident of pyongyang is terrified of being expelled from the city for some foolish mistake forcing them and their family to live in exile for

a few years or for the rest of their lives in a place where they'll have less of everything. with its lights and sights pyongyang. hires loyalty. people flock to the parks and swimming pools to enjoy what is the most attractive city in the country. and even the world for the people who live here at least since their world ends at the north korean border.

we've never witnessed a birth in north korea but we've seen plenty of weddings. for wedding preparations to be more precise like this professional photo shoot for the happy couple is posing in front of pyongyang most iconic locations. it's monsoon season which means 38 degrees celsius and a very humid. so susan has elicited the bride and groom 1st went to the statues of the great leaders. then we came to the flower park you see here near the water fountain so. soldiers usually like to pose in front of military monuments like the monument to the victorious fatherland liberation war. what the wedding video doesn't show are the many people who helped make this happy event possible.

to forget all the end up. in north korea most marriages are arranged through matchmakers it's their job to find the ideal marriage partner who will also be suitable to the families. although marrying for love is just starting to trend arranged marriages are still the norm one result is that people usually marry within their own social class. for many decades the country's elite was dominated by the revolutionary comrades of kim il sung and their descendants. at the bottom of the social order were the families of people who had collaborated with japan and their descendants. in between were some 40 subclasses who were not permitted to marry outside their rank. the end of kim il sung's regime the famine under kim jong il and the partial disintegration of both state and party that followed not only shook the country but also its traditional

social hierarchy. this helped loosen the stringent marriage rules. today the my. desirable professions for a husband are scientist diplomat the military and of course business professionals . for years women traffic police were highly sought after on the marriage market but they're seen less often now with the installation of traffic lights. young couples are expected to have children and their education will be put in the hands of the state at an early age. the country boasts a reported literacy rate of 100 percent a success that is attributed to the revolution. the most important school subjects

are math physics music and singing korean and the lives of the great leaders. from kindergarten on children are subjected to a rigorous selection process the best students spend their holidays taking part in sports at the young pioneer camps. here or. my. son 7 c. when we arrive at the stadium a competition is underway each side is cheering on its team. the young charges aren't wearing the standard lapel pins bearing the images of the great leaders there on holiday and children under 16 aren't obliged to wear them did rattle in

their priority and i think i thought i did i did i did ira. then it's time for the tug of war there are all. the evil american soldier in the middle is tough he's already made it through several tournaments or a 6 6 i was. i'd already. finding a good husband having a successful career these topics are far more interesting to most north koreans than the endless propaganda they're exposed to getting married is important and

it's also the focus of the sitcoms that are broadcast on a giant screen at a central railway station the local stand here to watch them in the middle of december even in a chilly minus 15 degrees celsius. we want who who who are. there is also an ad for automaker p.r. which means peace and korean the company was founded by sun myung moon's unification. in church but has been fully owned by the state since 2013. people. who want. the. the sitcoms betray a politically correct world the individual matters only as a part of the collective we're being a good worker is what counts. in

the winter everyone is responsible for a stretch of road no matter how much snow has fallen it has to be cleared. that's why scenes of people scraping snow and ice off their patch of road before heading off to the office are a common sight in the winter. for some un known reason we had to wait for years before our guides allowed us to film in parks. more on bunker park is a popular place for sunday outings at something like north korea's central park.

we wondered why permission to film here took so long. people drawing park scenes hardly seen like a state secret. then there are also shooting ranges. dancers. and lots of picnics. on public holidays the state sometimes distributes meat and beer. i don't. think. most. of. these pensioners free of family and professional obligations are enjoying a day out. i was.

there free style of dancing is not easily defined and has the air of a show moniker ritual. in 1956 filmmaker chris marker who was part of the 1st french delegation to visit the north after the korean war recorded almost identical scenes of workers dancing by a train factory. sit down and leave only stands to mourn in buying a park and you know you need to learn how we can pay with full mcconnell thinks the family is only meet every sunday to down south. of the nazi.

thank you that's why don't you stand down with us. as. the district next to the park is nicknamed little dubai at 1st sight it looks like a kind of commuter suburb but appearances are deceiving. all sorts of things are hidden behind these tinted windows electronics stores pharmacies banquet halls supermarkets and huge. selection of bars and restaurants.

this television ad sings the praises of a luxury supermarket so heavily airconditioned the staff wear warm jackets it's well stocked with everything from swiss chocolate to olive oil french and italian wines and imported fruit. the elegant restaurants up stairs are popular with the don't jews the money masters as the newly affluent are called they serve up sushi cappuccino a $20.00 steak north korea is no longer an empty consumerist state quite the opposite for those who can afford it.

north korea's party newspapers don't publish restaurant reviews yet but given the number of restaurants barbecue joints and snack bars cropping up everywhere around the country that's probably not too far off. is the north korean obsession with food a remnant of the arduous march the famine that ravaged the country between 1942000 causing somewhere between. half a 1000000 and a 1000000 deaths. back then even the word restaurant was considered taboo. kim jong il came into power he promised the north koreans they would never face such deprivation again. now food has become a sign of success an important part of the culture almost as much as in south korea .

we come across a 28000 press release from the official north korean news agency. it reads from the 2nd to the 4th of april the 23rd cooking festival took place at the pyongyang noodle house marking the day of the sun the birthday of president kim il sung. if there's anything north koreans excel at it's parades. each time military experts around the world scrutinized the missiles mounted on the vehicles imported in violation of u.n. sanctions. others analyze the slogan ponder the differences between parades over 3 generations of rulers. his son and his grandson. but there's one constant over the years the images of north koreans cheering on their leaders. with

the. it takes weeks of practice to make these living mosaics. normally filming rehearsals is forbidden. north korea only likes to display finished products or a painting. a missile or a reform. but it's a tempting scene. since 5 30 in the morning students have been out on every square in the city practicing for the upcoming parade. all of pyongyang as main roads pass through kim il sung square. it's obligatory to slow down when passing in front of the portraits of the great leaders so the temptation to reach for our cell phones and cameras is high time.

we observe the portraits as they observe us. during our 1st visits here we were like many foreigners and treat by their omnipresence. but the more often we visited the less we noticed them. up. the same does not apply to north koreans cyclists are required to dismount from their bikes and look upon the statues of their leaders. cars must slow down. 6 6 passers by turn to gaze at the images. shortly after kim jong il's death by young upper class woman trying to explain what the leaders meant to her. it's a bit like you with her jesus she said except for us jesus would also be

a member of the family. in the heat of the summer we occasionally saw a fan cooling the portrait of the leaders. north korean art like this fresco near the entrance to a sports shoe factory is designed to protect the country as the party would like to see it that it's not pure fiction but more often more an aspiration rather than a reality. the real one factory or weeping willow paradise has 700 workers 70 percent are

women they produce 1500000 sports shoes a year its assembly line work. for years local products were conspicuous in their conformity. now the factory is seeking to draw inspiration from foreign trends. in marketing jargon this is what's called benchmarking. you know guilty after he visited our factory a respected marshall sent us 142 pairs of foreign shoe models but one thing he said all this but that. dismissal. he told us to display them at the workplace next to the ones which had been done incorrectly. but that is what it should be settled i was technicians and employees

to observe and compare them to ours so. our goal is to raise the quality of our shoes to an international level legacy and that i just. copying foreign trends reducing imports and promoting local industry makes sense in a country that is often struck by sanctions but for the plan to work the products have to appeal to north korean consumers. one new brand is called body boss with a b the shoes all sport 3 stripes. in north korea patriotism is still a key sales driver. fashions are changing slowly too. in the early 1990 s. a foreign ministry publication was still proudly defending the goal of a monochrome society something between grey and brown. but times have changed.

we pay a visit to a bowling alley bowling popular in the 1980 s. has become trendy again. up stairs people are playing the slot machines. downstairs we get a good look at some of the latest bashan. here to banners tell the party line. that reads let's advance the social revolution that ensures the happiness and well being of the masses. if it wasn't for the slogans on the walls we could be almost

anywhere in asia. this young woman is an office worker. but that's a lot of everyone dresses to suit their body type and coloring some women have square shoulders and try to disguise them well. you would see the heavier ones try to dress in the color that suits them. and then do the same don't say. everyone knows best which clothes shoes and makeup to choose so they can look stylish. did you listen to. make on friday have fun. with that you know we come here with friends and colleagues to get some exercise and relax. bowling alone is no fun if the atmosphere and good mood that counts she went on to get even.

better. it's. just so. at this rest area along the motorway a bus full of chinese tourists has stopped on its way to k. song the city at the border to south korea. and 2017 nice visitors had all but disappeared due to sanctions. and $28.00 team they returned nearly $1000.00 chinese tourists come each day drawn by the peace and quiet the unspoiled nature and perhaps a touch of nostalgia for a country that reminds them of china 40 years ago and though it might come as

a surprise the training for jobs in the tourism industry is very popular in north korea nowadays. over the long term the country is hoping to increase the number of visitors by 30 percent each year. in the fall one sun beach on the east sea is deserted. it's the off season here 2 soldiers. have the beach to themselves. this time we're allowed to film them since they're not in uniform. this is the same beach in the summer. on the right the premium beach for affluent visitors. on the left the public area

where mission costs just a few cents. whether it's a group of workers a gathering of students or entire families everyone's enjoying themselves. and. people arrive by truck or on bicycles some come for the day others for a week. many come from rural regions. ok everybody dig in. and. we come from the countryside north of pyongyang. the whole family has come here to relax it's the best place to rest and have tried. our leader kim

jong long encouraged us to come on. they're building another tourist site in one sun and this year we're enjoying the beach here. next year we plan to relax into a new comer tourist zone. but you know. in the distance we can see the construction site dozens of hotels are being built that's another priority for the current leader. when donald trump met with kim jong un the us president was enthusiastic about the area and said the location had a lot of potential for development. in 20152016 north korean delegations discreetly inspected the french riviera and other mediterranean resorts for ideas that they could bring back to adopted home.

the manager of a famous local fish restaurant is pleased with what's happening. the madness of this so it's a great opportunity to make one sound known around the world. i do but there are knots of guest houses and some will have towns some people even campaign because the sea is very. stressed because. because if i had many french people will come here to swim and try a famous soup of course see go look look look look look look what. except in the mining and nuclear testing areas there's lots of unspoiled nature here. due to embark ohs farming uses very little artificial fertilizer. there's little light. pollution due to frequent electricity shortages. it comes as something of a surprise that north korea has never thought to market itself as

a pioneer in sustainable development. and inhabited for the past 65 years the demilitarized zone has preserved a unique biodiversity. so far pyongyang doesn't seem inclined to take advantage of these natural assets. because. i am. in the rest of the world north korea is seen as an anomaly. north korea also sees itself as unique which it certainly is as frequent visitors we are struck by the endless repetition of the same songs sung everywhere at schools and on public transportation the same

slogans decorate the streets the same films are constantly broadcast on t.v. north korea is a country under a bell jar a country marching to its own pace it's impenetrable frustrating exhausting. but its people are open curious and full of life. north korea is changing rapidly. poly or fast fast is a favorite phrase and both north and south korea. north koreans tastes are changing as are their hopes for the future. perhaps one day our image of north korea will change to.

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