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Anna Fifield’s exclusive North Korea journal

Published: August 15 2005 16:55 | Last updated: August 23 2005 13:30

Anna Fifield is the Financial Times’ correspondent in Seoul. In August 2005 she spent two weeks in North Korea and kept an online journal about her visit to and life in the isolated state.


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Or read the text version of Anna’s journal from North Korea:
Day 7: Farewell to the Socialist Paradise
Day 6: In the name of research
Day 5: The last frontier
Day 4: Criminality in Kimland
Day 3: Awaiting the Dear Leader
Day 2: Lost in translation
Day 1: Wishing for Chollima

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