Article 6TRH7 North Korea's war on the 'puppet language'

North Korea's war on the 'puppet language'

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editors@theworld.org (Patrick Winn)
from The World: Latest Stories on (#6TRH7)

North Korea is waging its own culture war, stepping up a crack down on bourgeois fashion: sunglasses, frilly wedding dresses, even unauthorized haircuts. But more vexing, to the regime, is speech: controlling not only what people say. But how they say it. The World's Patrick Winn reports on North Korea's fresh attacks on what it calls the language of puppets."

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