North Korea's New Street and Fanta for Phantoms: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
by Anna Diamond
Apr 14, 2017
3 minutes
Ben Mauk | “It’s an oddly warm October morning when Grit Richter, sitting in her modest office in Amt Neuhaus, gets a phone call from the interior ministry in Hannover. An administrator explains to her that Sumte, among the smallest of the thirty-six territories under Richter’s purview, will receive 1,000 asylum seekers starting at the end of the month, to be housed in the Apontas office complex. Richter isn’t sure she’s heard correctly. Yes, the administrator says, they know that Sumte is small. They also
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