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North Korea in the Slow Lane

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Oct 31, 2008
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Since 2004, Pyongyang has started to boast billboards — not pictures of the smiling Dear Leader or Great Leader exhorting increases in production, but actual advertisements for actual products — an actual single product, rather.

Scattered around the city of almost 3 million people, the billboards all promote the same company: Pyeonghwa (Peace) Motors, No…

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