Anju Links for 2 October 2008
AS FAMINE STALKS NORTH KOREA, A BUILDING BOOM hits Pyongyang. So where is the money is coming from, and why are pastel pink apartment blocks and skyscrapers built on mud the best use for it in such times? What is mysterious is that North Korea appears to be as broke as ever. The country’s economy went into a free fall in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and other communist allies, and it has barely recovered....