Change in North Korea  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8822 (Feb. 2013), page 11.
Topik: International Relations; Political Behavior; Government Executives; Governmental Reform; Nuclear Weapons

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Not long ago North Korea-watchers were speculating that the new leader, Kim Jong Un, might prove a moderniser. Lately, though, Mr Kim has reverted to type by prophesying war. Experts fear the North's Punggye-ri underground complex is about to host a nuclear test. If it does, Mr Kim will inherit the family title of Asia's pariah-in-chief. The nuclear threat and the vicious eccentricities of its leadership are, for the West, the most compelling of the country's features. But, as our briefing on explains, a revolutionary force is rising from below: a new class of traders and merchants. Capitalism is seeping through the bamboo curtain. This is not at the behest of the regime, as happened in Deng Xiaoping's China. North Korea is more repressive and backward than Cuba or the old Soviet Union. The regime will not depart quickly or easily: in the short term, Mr Kim's growing unease could well make him still more of a threat to his neighbours. But a familiar picture is emerging--and the world should do what it can to encourage it.

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