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People in Pyongyang are well fed, relatively speaking. They have decent housing and access to good education and so forth. Most of the rest of the country is not like that.

Photos essay of North Korea

Say what you will about North Korea, it sure knows how to put on a show. In the world's last remaining hardline communist state, "mass games" are the ultimate collective art form.

Explore South Africa's changes and challenges.

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From cell phones and banks to fast food chains and grocery stores, if a new business opens in an African town, it's most likely South African.

"A man of very questionable integrity," wrote Britain's ECONOMIST magazine. "A threat to liberal democracy," thundered France's LIBERATION daily. Most Italians disagree.