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While the crisis of capitalism forces the Dow Jones capitalist lackeys to<BR>
strangle their reptile organ, the DPRK's online presence continues to grow<BR>
in both quantity and quality, guided by the rays of the great Juche idea<BR>
and the solicitude of the fatherly Leader. (Motherly too, as Brian Myers <BR>
recently pointed out in his coruscating piece in <I>Atlantic Monthly</I>.)<BR>
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To wit (and apologies if everyone except me knows this already):<BR>
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1. I've just been alerted to a <B>new website for North Korean publications.</B><BR>
It looks pretty comprehensive. (A varied bill of fare, too: see below.)<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Korea publications Export & Import Corporation / <BR>
Beijing Sunyong Scientific Technology trade Co., Ltd.</B><BR>
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2. Also, the main North Korean Naenara site (www.kcckp.net), which<BR>
we discussed here back in July, has now become far more user-friendly. <BR>
No need to register any more, and you can access recent issues of the <BR>
Pyongyang Times, Korea Today, Foreign Trade of the DPRK, and more. <BR>
(The link to KCNA seems not to work; but that, as ever, is available <BR>
directly at http://www.kcna.co.jp)<BR>
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Among other resources, this includes the full text of the DPRK Constitution;<BR>
and also of no fewer than 38 different laws and regulations pertaining<BR>
to foreign business (at http://www.kcckp.net/en/trade/trade-rule.php)<BR>
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Other delights include sections on art, tourism, politics and more. You can<BR>
also listen to music - in theory. In practice, repeated buffering problems<BR>
marred my enjoyment of the Korean People's Army Merited Chorus<BR>
(eleven full CDs available: you can even follow the musical score).<BR>
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While clearly still a work in progress, this is a thoroughly professional site<BR>
(with North Korean characteristics), and extremely useful.<BR>
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Fraternally,<BR>
Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
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