Interview with Sokeel Park, director of a research and strategy group that aids refugees from North Korea, sheds light on the lives of ordinary North Koreans. He illuminates that North Korea is becoming increasingly more capitalistic in an attempt to lessen their isolation; however, this is all happening under the nose of the North Korean government. Correction: North Korea becomes increasingly capitalistic out of necessity: occurred because the North Korean economy was failing -- North Koreans needed food so they smuggled it into the country. As a result, the North Koreans became less isolated from the outside world. A decrease in isolationism and an increase in capitalism happened independently. -thanks miles

The U.N. has officially made the first authoritative statement that the Syrian Government is responsible for a recent Chemical attack that killed 83 people and injured close to 300. Coincidentally, this statement was made in the midst of international community loosening and removing all opposition to the Syrian government.