Late one night this summer, an anonymous North Korean slipped across the Tumen River into China. He risked death if collared but so do all of the desperate souls trying to escape the world's last Stalinist hellhole. What distinguished this man from his compatriots dozens get across the border every month was an incredibly rare item that he had stashed in his luggage: a phone book available only to high-ranking North Korean officials.
The identity of the escapee has not been disclosed; it's also unclear how the smuggled phone book ended up in Japan. But...
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