The Donald Trump of North Korea
For the past several decades, North Korea has looked like an outlier, a holdover from more authoritarian times. Today, it looks more like an indication of what is to come, as countries around the world turn away from liberalism and internationalism.
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DENVER – By all accounts, the much-anticipated Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea was a non-event. If the first such meeting of North Korea’s highest organ in more than 35 years had any impact at all, it was to dash any hopes that the country’s irascible leader, Kim Jong-un, would turn his attention to economic reform.