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Behind North Korea's Rocket Launch, Economic Turmoil

Behind North Korea's Rocket Launch, Economic Turmoil

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Apr 14, 2012
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With global attention focused on North Korea’s attempted launch and humiliating failure today of a multi-stage rocket, it’s worth also taking a look at the other claim the Pyongyang regime has long made for the imminent April 15 birth centennial of its founding leader, Kim Il-sung: emergence into economic prosperity.

Originally, the regime had declared t…

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