Under the missile flow: North Korea
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technological advancement. We ask why things are heating up, and how the West might at last cool them down. Reforms to Indonesia’s criminal code that sparked mass protests in 2019 are back; restrictions including an extramarital-sex ban look set to pass. And Wales’s booming leech-and-maggot business.
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| 1:01.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.4 | Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:07.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:13.6 | It looks like things are about to get a lot less permissive in Indonesia. A raft of reforms |
| 1:21.6 | swatted down by protests in 2019 now look set to become law, banning, among much else, sex outside of marriage. |
| 1:31.3 | And you might think that the use of leeches and maggots in medicine stopped in the Victorian era. |
| 1:38.3 | Quite the opposite. They're still in use to help with repairing blood vessels and wounds, |
| 1:43.3 | and two Welsh companies are doing a roaring trade in them. |
| 1:48.7 | But first... |
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