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February 13, 2013

Hit North Korea in the Wallet

Sung-Yoon Lee & Joshua Stanton, Washington Post

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Washington and Seoul should target Pyongyang’s greatest points of vulnerability: the Kim regime's overdependence on its "palace economy," and its systematic oppression of its people through a vast network of gulags and an omnipresent secret police force.

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