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But North Koreans interviewed in China paint a grimmer picture of medical conditions across their country: citing broken equipment, declining treatment standards and widespread self-medication.
Two North Koreans interviewed at an apartment renovation project here said their unit leader told them they must earn a minimum of $400 a month (close to the local minimum wage), which for most means moonlighting at private jobs.
Although it is possible the North Koreans interviewed are more disenchanted than others — given their affiliation with Christians, who are generally very critical of the Communist state — their accounts, told separately, largely dovetailed with one another's and with the assessments offered by foreign aid workers and academics who recently spent time in the country.
Most of the interviewees came from one border province, and it is unclear how widespread use is: North Koreans interviewed by the Guardian in China this year said methamphetamine was too expensive to be taken regularly or used to sate hunger pangs, though some used it as medicine because it was cheaper than imported drugs.
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Kim Jung-eun, a Korean producer, interviewed many North Koreans who sneaked across the Yumen River into China.
None of the young South Koreans randomly interviewed had heard of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the truce.
According to a North Korean defector interviewed by the authors, Kim Kwang-Jin, who has firsthand knowledge of North Korean financial practices, Office No. 39 is also known to North Korean insiders as "the keeper of Kim's cashbox".
Even so, the magazine reported, many South Korean players interviewed supported the policy, including the Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak.
A midlevel North Korean official, interviewed here at this desolate port city in a region of the northeast that was the country's thriving industrial belt until the collapse of the Soviet bloc and its trading system, denied that systemic changes were under way.
The producer, Chris Marteens, has crafted a smart and rounded work, looking at every angle: Kim's Korean friends are interviewed, one of them said his death "shows Koreans tenacity, courage and self-confidence".
Investigators interviewed Korean witnesses and dozens of American soldiers, many of whom -- five decades later -- provided conflicting and even discredited versions of the killings.
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