![Lottery of misery: Bleak choices for North Korea's women Lottery of misery: Bleak choices for North Korea's women](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2016-11/61478157655_HyeonseoLee.jpg)
Lottery of misery: Bleak choices for North Korea's women
The choice is: stay and endure a life of privation and oppression or escape and risk being sold into sexual slavery.
Thu Nov 03 2016
![N. Korean anti-tobacco push up in smoke as Kim keeps puffing N. Korean anti-tobacco push up in smoke as Kim keeps puffing](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2016-06/71465640945_KimJongUn.jpg)
N. Korean anti-tobacco push up in smoke as Kim keeps puffing
A North Korean anti-smoking campaign has apparently failed to persuade young leader Kim Jong-Un to kick the habit.
Sat Jun 11 2016