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Inside North Korea's literary fiction factory

  • Written by Meredith Shaw, Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics and International Relations, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
North Korean women work at the cashier table of a bookstore in Pyongyang, North Korea.AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

With colorful rhetoric about dotards and nuclear buttons, North Korean propaganda is attracting attention around the world.

Outside observers can now easily access some of this propaganda by visiting regime-sponsoredwebsites. These have, in...

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