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Second Place
Tomas van Houtryve Newsweek
"A Workers' Paradise?"
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North Korea's guiding principle is known as
"Juche," a mix of communism and extreme self reliance. After the
collapse of the Soviet Union, North Korea's economy hit a crisis leading to
massive a famine among the population. Neither the economy nor the Juche
ideology has changed much in recent years, but by building and testing
nuclear weapons, North Korea has managed to negotiate increasing amounts of
foreign aid out of nervous donors. That aid is the what is keeping the
country's economy on track today.
Passengers put their hands outside a bus window in
the rain in Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK) on 21 August 2007..
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