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North Korea is waging its own culture war, stepping up a crack down on bourgeoisfashion: sunglasses, frilly wedding dresses, even unauthorized haircuts. But more vexing, to the regime, is speech: controlling not only what people say. But how they say it. The World’s Patrick Winn reports on North Korea’s fresh attacks on what it calls the “language of puppets.”