Meanings of closed societies in English

Iran and North Korea were particularly difficult intelligence targets because of their closed societies.

Clearly, the Information Highway is crossing all sovereign borders and penetrating even the most closed societies.

The inequities and benefits in closed societies are becoming known to both the public as well as the bosses.

Like Popper before him, Soros considered the countries of communist eastern Europe to be the ultimate models of closed societies.

Instead, "as actual conditions change", people in closed societies were forced to abide by an atavistic ideology that was increasingly unpersuasive.

Although North Korea is one of the world's most closed societies, U.N. agencies had had no problems from authorities in visiting affected areas, Wahlstrom said.

According to Soros, the dogmatic mode of thinking that characterised closed societies made it impossible for them to accommodate to the changing vicissitudes of history.

Very few manage to get under the skin of the place -hardly surprising given it remains one of the most closed societies on earth.