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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>It's all too easy to miss articles about Korea
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>which </FONT><FONT size=4>appear in </FONT><FONT size=4>non-specialist publications.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>One such, which should not be missed, is this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Robert S Boynton, "</FONT><FONT size=4><STRONG>North Korea’s
Digital Underground</STRONG>"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><EM>The Atlantic </EM>April 2011. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>It's available - freely, I think - at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><o:p><A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/1/"><FONT size=3>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/north-korea-8217-s-digital-underground/8414/1/</FONT></A></o:p></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p></o:p></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>This is the best account I've yet seen of who these
people</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>are, what they are up to, and how and why they do
it.</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p></o:p></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>Such new media have excited some
controversy.</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>For contrasting recent views on them, see
eg</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p><A href="http://38north.org/2011/04/quagmire/">http://38north.org/2011/04/quagmire/</A></o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>and </o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p><A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MD19Dg01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MD19Dg01.html</A></o:p></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>Kind regards</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p>Aidan FC</o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><o:p></o:p></FONT> </DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt" lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3>Aidan
Foster-Carter<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3>Honorary
Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University,
UK</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></o:p></FONT></DIV>
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