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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is known for producing
\n ballistic missiles and a nuclear weapons programme. But cuddly cartoon
\n characters?<\/p>\n
"Empress Chung" will be the first major feature
\n animated entirely in communist North Korea to enjoy a wide release in
\n a capitalist country when it opens in South Korea on Friday.<\/p>\n
It opens
\n in Pyongyang on August 15, the day the Korean peninsula was liberated
\n from Japanese colonial rule but also divided into North and South by
\n the Alied forces.<\/p>\n
North Korea’s impoverished economy is desperately in
\n need of hard foreign currency. The reclusive state is shunned by most
\n of the world for its highly authoritarian rule and is currently the focus
\n of a multinational effort to curb its nuclear ambitions. Animation has
\n been one of the few things that North Korea — branded by the Bush administration
\n as being an "outpost of tyranny" — has been able to sell to
\n overseas investors.<\/p>\n
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\n by Labor Day.<\/em><\/p>\n