Jangmadang

North Korea daily life for most of its roughly 26 million people is shaped by two systems that pull against each other. On one side is a state that assigns your job, your home and your class rank. On the other are private markets, which have fed families since the famine of the 1990s. Nearly everything outsiders know comes from defectors (people who escaped the country), the 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry …