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Russian State TV to Its Citizens: Be More Like North Koreans

LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

Amid Kim Jong Un’s barnstorming tour of Russia, the country’s propagandists have begun extolling the virtues of the hermit kingdom’s spartan lifestyle.

Julia Davis
Julia Davis
A photo composite of North Korean and Russian military parade marches in a television set.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters
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