SEOUL, South Korea — Pyongyang is drab and colorless, known mostly for its blockish, retro-Soviet architecture and socialist realism.
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PRI’s The World
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By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Dec 2, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Since taking parliamentary office a year and a half ago, Kim Jae-yeon, 33, has been called a North Korean apologist, a pinko, and a “leftist zombie” — a derogatory phrase that fringe web commentators deploy against liberals and socialists in the South.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Oct 04, 2013
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