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The First Signs of Life; Will economic reforms in the Hermit Kingdom save Kim Jong Il's regime--or hasten the fall?
Byline: George Wehrfritz, With B. J. Lee in Seoul and Hideko Takayama in Tokyo
The Japanese investor had once considered the incessant propaganda blaring on his factory floor a cost of doing business inside communist North Korea. Yet when he recently asked his joint-venture partner to pull the plug--a request indignantly rebuffed in the past--his counterpart's response was stunning. "Politics is now separate from economics," the North Korean foreman told him. And for the first time since the factory opened two years ago, his workers began churning out processed seafood unaccompanied by tales of "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il's boundless glories.
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