"The regime and now the wall are crumbling fast, " he wrote.

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In the event, it has taken less than two months of his new term for his regime to hit a brick wall.

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South Korea and the U.S. should consider an unconventional maneuver--the one that precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall--to undermine North Korea's regime.

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In one ecstatic night, the East German regime's border guards did nothing as local protesters overwhelmed the dividing wall.

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In a trenchant op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal, the eminent scholar David Satter further illuminates Russia's condition, revealing how "the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power, " by, for example, adopting legislation that effectively gives the state control of NGOs - heretofore the sole outposts of Russian civil society.

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