Misunderstanding North Korea’s Celebrity Culture

For nearly a year I have been carrying around with me an essay by David Zeglen titled “It’s the Thought That Counts: North Korea’s Glocalization of the Celebrity Couple and the Mediated Politics of Reform,” which appeared in an anthology titled “First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics.” With America just nominating its first major party female candidate for president, herself the wife of a former president, I finally found the time to read it. If one can get arou

Source: Peterson Institute (PIIE)