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North Korea is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries on Earth. To punish the authoritarian state for developing nuclear weapons, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union severely limit what North Korea can trade. But North Korea is making and selling wigs, made from human hair, that sanctions have overlooked. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports,
State of the Union: Few Westerners ever get a glimpse inside Wa State, once the world’s biggest opium producer and now a major source of meth.
Hong Kong police are investigating a crime in which scammers, targeting an unnamed multinational corporation, used deepfake technology to imitate a chief financial officer and other staffers. Scraping data from publicly available video, the scam operation faked their voices and faces in a life-like way. Then, over a video chat, they instructed an employee to transfer $25
In the suburbs of Taipei, Taiwan's capital, there’s a Taoist shrine to the Rabbit God. He’s a deity specializing in affairs of the heart, specifically aiding those who identify as male seeking romance with men. The shrine also attracts visitors from all over Asia, where in many countries same-sex couplings are taboo or illegal. The World’s Patrick Winn meets a young Taiwanese
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