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		<title>Making The Grade in The Impossible State</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Big Idea? Step into a classroom in North Korea and you will find very little that differs from a classroom in New York City &#8211; chalkboard, rows of desks, chairs, desktop computers and bulletin boards full of text and pictures. But stay a little longer and you ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ha to fight for N.K. human rights bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Defector Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Activist-turned-lawmaker says motivated by left-wing resistance in Assembly Rookie Saenuri Party lawmaker Ha Tae-keung has one main aim ― supporting North Korean rights. One of a swath of outsiders recruited by the ruling party to run in the April parliamentary elections, Ha’s career path and political beliefs set him apart ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cold comfort for Japan-South Korea ties, By Kosuke Takahashi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO &#8211; Sixty-seven years after the end of World War II, history is once again beginning to produce heightened diplomatic tensions between Japan and South Korea. The thorny question of whether or not the Japanese government should meet South Korea&#8217;s renewed demand that Tokyo pay compensation to &#8220;comfort women&#8221; forced ...]]></description>
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		<title>Korean War POW buried 61 years after death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Man jailed after gas station clerk robbed, burnedMan jailed after gas station clerk robbed, burnedA suspect is jailed in after the robbery of a suburban Dallas gas station and burning of its 76-year-old female clerk.More >>A suspect is jailed in after the robbery of a suburban Dallas gas station and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese fishermen and boats held in North Korea &#8216;freed&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[20 May 2012 Last updated at 21:55 ET The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans are free, Chinese state media reports. The North Korean foreign ministry notified the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang on Sunday that the men were free, said Xinhua ...]]></description>
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		<title>Top officials meet as N.Korea nuclear test feared &#8211; AFP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[WMD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Top officials meet as N.Korea nuclear test feared (AFP) – 46 minutes ago  SEOUL — Senior US, South Korean and Japanese officials have begun talks on North Korea and other issues amid concerns the communist state may be planning another nuclear test, according to Seoul&#8217;s foreign ministry.The one-day talks involve ...]]></description>
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		<title>U Thein Sein makes pledge on North Korea military ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Zaw Win ThanVolume 32, No. 627May 21 &#8211; 27, 2012 PRESIDENT U Thein Sein last week promised South Korean leader Lee Myung-bak that Myanmar would not buy any more weapons from North Korea. U Thein Sein told the South Korean president during a landmark two-day visit that Myanmar has ...]]></description>
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		<title>North Koreans in rice belt starve to death: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Koreans in rice belt starve to death: report (AFP) – 55 minutes ago  SEOUL — Food shortages have worsened even in North Korea&#8217;s southwestern rice belt and some residents have starved to death there, a Seoul-based online newspaper said Monday.&#8217;Because of worsening food shortages this year there were reports ...]]></description>
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		<title>Government reaches out to North Korea for abduction talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A government official close to Jin Matsubara, the minister in charge of addressing the abduction of Japanese by North Korea, has sent a message to Pyongyang seeking talks with officials of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea, according to sources. The message was delivered through a member of the assembly in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Germany, By Andrei Lankov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrei Lankov When talking about countries divided by communist and capitalist forces in the 1940s, two examples usually come to mind ― Korea and Germany. There were other cases of course, including Vietnam and China, but Germany and Korea are perhaps the two most talked about.Indeed, the similarities between ...]]></description>
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