HAMHUNG, North Korea -- A visit to this remote and desolate city near North Korea's eastern coast provides a rare glimpse of the country's near-total economic collapse. The crisis is over food -- or the lack of it -- but the country's problems run much deeper, to the core of a socialist system that... -
Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation
HAMHUNG, North Korea -- A visit to this remote and desolate city near North Korea's eastern coast provides a rare glimpse of the country's near-total economic collapse. The crisis is over food -- or the lack of it -- but the country's problems run much deeper, to the core of a socialist system that...-
By Keith B. Richburg