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World Service,28 Mar 2001,12 mins

North Korea Opens Up

From Our Own Correspondent

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Reports from North Korea and Cuba on the adoption of new communications. In North Korea things are opening up although mobile phones are still banned. And in the fast moving, hi-tech information age, Cuba has decided to move at its own much slower pace.

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