North Korea pressing its own impoverished people for cash to fund 2012 extravaganza
By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s totalitarian regime is reaching out to its suffering population for foreign currencies, gold and other valuables they might possess to help finance massive political projects marking the centennial next April of the birth of the nation’s founder, Kim Il-Sung. The North’s state banks have offered to buy […]