Category: World
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Holiday at the Dictator’s Guesthouse | Atavist
What possessed a family man from Ohio to smuggle a Bible into North Korea? On the morning of August 1, 2014, Jeffrey Fowle woke before seven in his room at a guesthouse in Pyongyang, North Korea. Soon a young woman arrived with his breakfast of rice, broth, and kimchi. She smiled as she set the…
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Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation | Wired
In northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.