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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Simon Jeffery

North Korea's feelgood factor

Expectations that North Korea would collapse from the inside appear to be misplaced, according to the Christian Science Monitor. It reports that trade over the Chinese border doubled in the last quarter of 2004 and, far from being on the brink of imploding, its Stalinist regime could be enjoying an economic boom.

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