A North Korean staff prepares a coffee at a cafe in central Pyongyang, North Korea, in this August 31, 2013 handout. REUTERS/Handout via Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - Nail salons, massage parlours, cafes and other signs of consumerism were unheard of in rigidly controlled North Korea just a few years ago, but they are slowly emerging in one of the world's last bastions of Cold War socialism.
North Korea operates a centrally-planned economy modelled on the former Soviet Union where Western-style conspicuous consumption is anathema.
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