How Kim Jong-un keeps West’s spies in the dark
Despite all the noise and speculation, very few people outside of North Korea have a clue what's going on inside the 'Hermit Kingdom'.
Wellington/Washington | As soon as Rachel Lee wakes up, she fires up her computer and starts scouring North Korean newspapers, television broadcasts, academic journals and obscure websites affiliated to the secretive nation.
Alongside the propagandist prose thick with dogma and slogans, images of politburo meetings, military parades, leadership rostrums, state anniversaries and funerals are parsed in search of one vital clue: who is inching nearer to Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader.
Financial Times
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