A few days ago, a new session of the Supreme People's Assembly - North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament - was convened in Pyongyang. In most cases, such sessions do not attract much attention outside a tiny circle of the full-time Pyongyang watchers: few people would be excited by the sight of monotonously and tastelessly dressed men and women sitting in rows and raising their hands to signal their unanimous approval of the laws and resolutions that - as everybody understands - seldom bear any relation to reality.
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