Pyongyang has surged ahead of the rest of the country, the kleptocrats have grown stronger, and canny traders have joined a fledgling class of nouveaux riches.
Firstly, in retrospect, nearly all the targets of human-powered search are directed to those who violated moral rules of our society, or are corrupted officials.
He felt that there were only two ways to revolution, one was to organize an uprising, and the other was to assassinate these corrupt officials of the Qing Dynasty.
The man was singing: For long I've caught fish at Liao Er, Neither corn nor hemp do I plow; I'll kill the corrupt officials, I'm loyal to Emperor Zhao.
That has helped trigger a craving for the material trappings of the modern world, and the flow of such contraband goods from China to the North Korean border, orchestrated or waved on by corrupt officials.