Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution blog wrote [1] about how the dictatorship in North Korea has survived decades despite mass starvation and economic failure. The author, quoting parts from the book Nothing to Envy [2], commented that the North Korean iron curtain which has been much more impenetrable than that of Eastern Europe was the major contributing factor.
North Korea, Country in a Long Coma
· Written by Lee Yoo Eun
Categories: East Asia, North Korea, South Korea, Disaster, Freedom of Speech, Humanitarian Response, Media & Journalism, Politics, Refugees