"Please don't invade us, Mr. Bush"
The world's last hard-line Stalinist dictatorship, North Korea,
has started
a charm offensive to improve its image abroad. This includes talks with South Korea and tentative moves towards a market economy.
Next up: Fidel Castro offers Nike use of his labour camps,
and Moammar Ghadafi invites McDonalds to set up a franchise in Tripoli.
(Though if North Korea does open up somewhat, it could probably market itself
as a Stalinist-retro-kitsch tourist destination, and make quite a bit of
money from post-ironic hipsters.)