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...The whole purpose of their rapprochement with Tehran in March last year was to ward off this threat. This is also why the kingdom has been seeking security guarantees from the US....
...He kicked off with “De Selby (Parts 1 and 2)”, looking slightly navel-wards and adopting the voice of a fictitious philosopher, but before long he was bounding into the tambourine-rattling of older hits....
...“The regime is much more secure than when Kim came to power in 2011,” says Peter Ward, a fellow at the University of Vienna’s European Centre for North Korean Studies....
...“With his reforms, Kim is trying to create the image of a single-party rather than a single-person regime,” says Peter Ward, a fellow at the University of Vienna’s European Centre for North Korean Studies...
...Ward also has a show at Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca foundation (until July 28), while gallery artist Kim Yun Shin is one of the participants in the Biennale’s main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition....
...North Korea has identified four suspected coronavirus cases in a border region with China, two weeks after leader Kim Jong Un declared “victory” over Covid-19....
...“The economy has already taken a battering, and sustained lockdowns could severely impact the urban commercial economy still further,” said Ward....
...“What does it mean to grieve someone in the age of death trolls, Facebook memorials, and Kanye creating a hologram of Kim’s dead dad as a gift of love?” Lloyd asks....
...“Internal North Korean propaganda tends not to hide the country’s own problems,” said Peter Ward, a Seoul-based North Korea expert at the University of Vienna....
...Peter Ward, a Seoul-based North Korea expert at the University of Vienna, said the numbers were relatively low compared with pre-pandemic trade but suggested the border was starting to reopen....
...Peter Ward from the University of Vienna said that the fight against climate change would probably make the North Korean regime even poorer....
...Newport was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Kim, a computer programmer, and Frank, a sociologist who would spend almost three decades as editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll....
...In the 1990s Kim Jong Il, the late father of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, responded to a devastating famine by promoting rabbit and ostrich meat as foodstuffs of the future....
...“The people who are really going to suffer are the people who don’t have a political voice, the people outside of Pyongyang, especially in the smaller towns,” Ward said....
...“It feels like the Kim regime is slowly getting paralysed,” he said....
...Svengali manager Kim Fowley (“Lord Voldemort”, according to Jackie Fuchs of girl band The Runaways), is safely dead....
...“Most North Korean households are going to be hurting,” Ward said....
...We saw continued talk of restoring the state commercial sector and reasserting control over distribution – which is very concerning,” Mr Ward said....
...Mr Ward added: “It's very mysterious that they would actually hold such an event in such circumstances, because they have so little to show-off right now.”...
...But the more interesting statement came from Kim Kardashian. The reality star and lingerie entrepreneur appeared at the Met Gala wrapped from head to toe in black....
...The economic crisis has heaped pressure on Mr Kim to act....
...Dustyn Kim, Artsy’s chief revenue officer, says the sale marks a “watershed” moment for the platform, which launched in 2012....
...Mr Ward added that Mr Kim theoretically had the option to ease pressure via economic “liberalisation” — a move that would cut against a broader reassertion of centralised control....
...Kim Jong Un is demanding a sharp increase in cash from North Korea’s moneyed class to counter the dual threats from coronavirus and sanctions....
...Mark Ward’s a friend of mine – he was one of the people I looked up to and admired when I was a kid. If I weren’t doing what I do, I would work in conservation....
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