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ANDREI LANKOV: Well, first of all I would like to express my gratitude to Johns Hopkins University and to the Brookings Institution for sponsoring this event – for sponsoring my trip here and for sponsoring this presentation.
And then – well, it’s probably time to begin? And we’ll begin probably from how North Korea used to look for a few decades from maybe the late fifties to the early nineties, because I would say that Kim Il-Sung in many regards was more Stalinist than Stalin himself. He made his country into something Comrade Stalin probably dreamt of in his nights – sleepless nights but knew that it was impossible in such large and sparsely populated country as Russia.
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