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The state manufacturing economy has officially stayed aloof from the new market economy, though parts of the regime have proved opportunistic. For instance, railways are the major conduits for the new trade, and railway stations often serve as lively markets. Rather than clamp down on them, railway staff and police take a cut. The armed forces, too, have leapt into the black market: after all, they have the transport, the personnel and the weaponry to enforce a protection racket. This may be profitable for the state's agents, but it hardly reinforces their moral authority. A Western diplomat recounts seeing a group taking a sofa up a subway escalator in Pyongyang to sell on the street. Guards were bawling at them to get out of the way, but nobody paid the slightest attention.
It all adds up, reckons Mr Lankov (whose life in the former Soviet Union informs his view of changes in North Korea), to something of consequence: North Korea is no longer the ruthless Stalinist state it was, but a shoddy, corrupt little tyranny. And now the people know it.

A. 어휘
the state manufacturing economy 국가의 제조업 경제.
aloof from ...로부터 멀어져 있다. opportunistic 기회주의의.
conduit 導管(도관), 수도관. clamp 꺾쇠, 죄는 기구. clamp down 탄압하다.
take a cut 모른 체 하다. leap-leapt-leapt/leaped-leaped 도약하다, 뛰어 오르다.
weaponry [집합적] 武器(무기). racket 喝取(갈취), 사기, 협박, 橫領(횡령).
state agent 국가기관. moral authority 도덕적 권위.
recount 이야기하다, 자세히 말하다. bawl 크게 외치다, 야단치다.
get out of the way 길을 비키다. add up to 합계...이 되다. 결국...이 되다.
reckon 평가하다. something of consequence 중요한 어떤 것. ruthless 무자비한.
shoddy 가짜의, 위조의.

B. 구문
- North Korea is no longer . . . state it was.
[북한은 더 이상 옛날의 무자비한 스탈린주의 국가가 아니다.]