Cultural Analysis of : "North Korea's growing economy-and America's Misconceptions about it"

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In this post I provide a brief cultural analysis of  "North Korea's growing economy-and America's Misconceptions about it"  by finding some keywords (or what I think are keywords) and creating a thesis of the article.

• Cultural Keywords?  1. "made in China" . I think this would be considered a cultural keyword because what a person associates with the words " made in china: is of  cheap goods produced by underpaid and overworked laborers.The author connects the phrase to the main idea of the article because the start of North Korea's capitalism is literally being made in Dandong, China in North Korean ran factories.    2. "Border" could be another keyword in this article. it's repeated about 4 times in the writing. I don's know about internationally but in America the word border is acknowledged as place where illegal things happen and where the government cannot keep watch of all the activities that go on around the border. It; almost like a blind spot. The author uses border repeatedly in the article to create a visual of the ....not quite  so legal operations that happen with this factory and the fact that both the North Korean and Chinese government overlook it.    3. Sanction .  the word sanction is also repeated  3 or four times in the article. the author refers to the sanctions american placed on North Korea that should have hindered it's economy  yet the word sanction is used loosely because North Korea is still finding ways to make money and boost it's economy. regardless of the "sanctions" placed on them. 

• The Thesis: Although  most of America perceives that the sanctions the U.S government  have placed on North Korea have rendered the country  in a financial lock down, The country's citizens have found ways to operate factories in china near the border of North Korea and funnel money back to the North Korea regime.