North Korea's 'Currency Reforms' Hurt Thousands
from National Public RadioJuly 19, 2010
North Korea's "currency reforms" introduced last fall have had disastrous human consequences. It wiped out the savings of North Koreans, and may have fueled more popular discontent with the regime. Los Angeles Times reporter Barbara Demick writes about the policy in the current issue of the New Yorker.
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