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Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Gavan McCormack
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With the lunar New Year, in Northeast Asia the darkness of winter recedes, a pale sun gains strength, daylight hours lengthen and the earth stirs. However, in one of the bleakest and coldest corners of the region, North Korea, the land is still hard-frozen, spring is far off, and political frosts have not melted for more than half a century. Yet all extremes are eventually exhausted and yield, as yang to yin, and even for North Korea that time may not be far off.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 2005, e23
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