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Cato Weekly Podcast • June 23, 2017 

# Pyongyang Changes and Stays the Same 

The death of a student who had been sentenced to decades of hard labor for a minor crime reveals that some things haven’t changed in Pyongyang. Some things have changed. Cato’s Doug Bandow, fresh from his trip to North Korea, discusses the Kim Jong Un regime.

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##### [Doug Bandow](/people/doug-bandow)

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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##### [Caleb O. Brown](/people/caleb-o-brown)

Former Director of Multimedia, Host and Executive Producer, *Cato Daily Podcast*, Cato Institute