Special report | North Korea

North Korea is changing, but still dangerous

Attempts at reconciliation have stalled

Still foes, not bros

IN THE SUMMER of 2019, South Koreans were shocked by the news that a North Korean woman, who had fled her country through China a decade before, had died with her young son in her flat in Seoul. Weeks passed before a building manager found the bodies. Authorities concluded she had starved.

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