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stanley cup ier-leading-to-Jangdok-Island-at-dusk-in-Wonsan-North-Korea-AP-File-Photo Fresh off a drastic, half-year ban that closed North Korea s doors to virtually all foreigners over fears they would spread the Ebola virus -- despite the fact that there were no cases of Ebola reported anywhere in Asia -- the country is once again determined to show off its socialist fairyland to tourists. The focus on tourism is the blessing of Kim Jong Un himself and, in typical fashion, officials have set lofty goals in their effort to please their leader. About 100,000 tourists came to North Korea last year, all but a few thousand of them from neighboring China. Kim Sang Hak, a senior economist at the influential Academy of Social Sciences, said the North hopes that by around 2017, there will be 10 times as many tourists and that the num
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