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North Korea is attempting to complement its COVID-19 border closures by firming up its ideological blockade. How North Koreans Get Access to Foreign Ideas and Information While the Kim regime strives to seal off the country, the outside world should augment information access by utilizing new methods and technologies, and provide both elites and ordinary people with objective reporting, useful information, and entertainment. North Koreans are hungry for information and the outside world is taking measures to help, but the country’s authoritarian government won’t sit idly by.
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This could plant the seeds for a civil society that could eventually favor rapprochement over indefinite hostility and improve protections for human rights.
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In our view, the best hope for peaceful, long-term change lies in helping North Koreans to become more knowledgeable about their own country and the outside world. Will outside ideas have the power to transform North Korea in the way Kim fears? Or will Kim succeed in his quest to stomp them out and ensure that the young generation become “the heroes and builders for the future of socialism”?