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Going native in the Hermit Kingdom

Only a tiny handful of foreigners have lived in North Korea as long as Mike Hay, an Anglo-French lawyer who spent 12 years in Pyongyang. Unlike most diplomats and aid workers, Hay was not an inhabitant of Pyongyang’s Diplomatic Compound or of a long-stay hotel. He lived in a downtown apartment. “That is very, very […]

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