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Winter in North Korea’s Potemkin City
Visiting the North Korean capital city Pyongyang in the 21st century is to find a city out of time: a hulking stone-and-steel anachronism lurching into modernity on its own terms.
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Midnight Latitudes: Pyramiden
High above the Arctic Circle in Svalbard, a desolate archipelago situated midway between Norway and the North Pole, a Cold War outpost drifts further and further out of time.
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Namibia’s Sand Castle Kingdom
Enterprising Germans wanting their own slice of the good life flocked to Kolmanskop, and soon this far-flung desert outpost became one of the richest towns in the world.
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The Class of 2015 Has a Message
Large-scale demonstrations broke out at universities across South Africa this week, with students protesting en masse against planned fee increases.
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Frontier Empire II: Ascension Island
Spending any amount of time on Ascension, one gets used to hearing the phrase "it's a working island" a lot.
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Frontier Empire I: Saint Helena
Midway between Africa and South America in the lonely South Atlantic, St Helena wears its status as one of the world’s most remote inhabited places as a mark of pride.
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Midnight Latitudes
In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing the boast "world's northernmost".
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