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2010-08-12 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2010-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 What the hell could they mean by North Korean members of a "middle class"? The term is nonsensical outside of a functioning civil society or proper economic market. Are we talking low-level party spear-chuckers, black-market merchants? Or are we talking non-party professionals? Does such a beast even exist in North Korea? Or are these just people who aren't party but can't be classified as proles or peasants - anything from a mechanic to a party apparatchik?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-08-12 11:26|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-08-12 11:26|| Front Page Top

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