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Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by dzink on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:43PM (#7071536)
We had those in Bulgaria for a number of years before the fall of communism. They were restricted to use only by foreigners buying with foreign currency and locals could only gawk, but never buy. As a child I remember seeing Kinder Surprise eggs and Ritter Sport chocolates, and watching ads for Hot Wheels toys and paint-by number sets I could never play with. It scars you for life.

Years later I saw paint by number sets at a store as an adult and then bought two and spend a weekend doing just that, because I had been dreaming of doing it for years. Ritter Sport is everywhere in the US now, but when I see it, I'm just reminded of the misery of a childhood behind the iron curtain. It's gonna be a loooong transition for the victims of the Kim regime.

Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by herdrick on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:04PM (#7072150)
Actually, this is something else. Those foreigner-only, hard-currency-only ones are sad enough, but this is much worse. There is no store. It's just playacting.
Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by kteofanidis on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:44AM (#7075677)
It wasn't even that. Locals were also allowed to buy as long as they had foreign currency. While it was hard to get it was by no means impossible (black market at 3-4 times the official rate). Of course if you bought anything expensive or too often, questions would be asked.
Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by dzink on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:22PM (#7074087)
It's a museum of the present that could have been.