Kim Jong Un Is Doing Everything He Can to Keep North Korea's Youth in Line

The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings drafted into flood reconstruction.

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