The world this week

KAL’s cartoon

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The arms race on the Korean peninsula is intensifying
Getting information about North Korea’s gulag is harder than ever
The world is facing an upsurge of nuclear proliferation

KAL’s cartoon appears weekly in The Economist. You can see last week’s here.

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