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The Face at the Window: A Glimpse Into North Korea

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Feb 15, 2008
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The city centre of Kaesong in North Korea

Standing almost with his nose against the glass, he was smiling broadly and waving his open hand slowly back and forth as our bus full of South Korean tourists passed in front of his ground-level apartment building. What was this elderly citizen of Kaesong City in North Korea saying to us? Throughout our one-day…

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