<This is really strange. I hope they do it--we can always use another glaring contrast between capitalist success and socialist failure. One wonders as to how they will keep North Koreans out, and what the citizens will be thinking staring at the Emerald City from outside the walls.

TOKYO - North Korea says it is setting up a 51-square-mile walled enclave to serve as a capitalist economic zone, handing its control to a Chinese multimillionaire who is rumored to have run afoul of Beijing's tax authorities. The ''special administrative region'' will have its own Legislature, courts, and casinos, and will use US dollars as its currency and permit visa-free access to everyone except North Koreans, according to Yang Bin, the 39-year-old Dutch citizen of Chinese birth who has been named to run the district. Foreigners would be allowed to serve in its government, he said. ''It will be a totally capitalist region,'' Yang said at a news conference in Pyongyang late Monday. China said yesterday it welcomed communist North Korea's first major experiment in capitalism, but stopped short of an outright endorsement of the move.