One country’s trash is a researcher’s ‘treasure’

In South Korea, a scholar has gotten creative in order to study what’s happening across the demilitarized zone in North Korea— picking up trash from the DPRK that’s washed ashore on South Korea’s beaches. Getting a handle on what’s happening in North Korea has never been easy, but COVID-19 made things even harder. Another researcher told The World that this beachcombing scholarship is just the latest in a line of indirect methods of studying the hermit country.