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		<title>Female N.Korean refugees suffer abuse</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/03/02/north-korea-women-refugees-suffer-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a North Korean, you would be in a dire need of protection of your human rights under the government&#8217;s oppression. If you are a North Korean and woman, you would know that wherever you go, the protection of your rights would be barely possible. Even once a few of those North Koreans successfully flee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1045&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China sent 300,000 tons of food to N.Korea last year</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/24/china-sent-300000-tons-of-food-to-n-korea-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that China has just recently provided about 300,000 tons of food to North Korea last year to ease its chronic shortages. China, the North&#8217;s sole major ally, has long been its chief energy and food supplier. Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek gave the figure in a report Tuesday to a closed session of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=960&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for LiNK to Help It Win $250,000 (Update)</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/16/urgent-vote-for-link-to-help-it-win-250000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty in North Korea (LINK), which is one of the most active and largest organizations helping North Korean refugees, is competing with 189 organizations for the grant from Pepsi and only the top 2 will be awarded $250k.  The poll ends on February 28th, and anyone can vote once a day, but can vote again daily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=869&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portsmouth man describes North Korea&#8217;s &#8216;closed society&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/13/portsmouth-man-describes-north-koreas-closed-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The few reporters and toursits who get a chance to go to North Korea from the western world seldom venture far from the capital Pyongyang where the same circuit of buildings, monuments and museums only serve to falsify the life of the majority of the population. But Nate Groth, Portsmouth, N.H., native has been where less than 3,000 other western tourists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=848&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ji-eun&#8217;s Story</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/11/ji-euns-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JoongAng Daily&#8217;s article features a story of Ji-Eun, a North Korean defector who currently resides in Seoul. Her father died in North Korea when she was little and the family had a hard time carving out a living in the poverty stricken nation. In 2000, when she was 6 years old, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Ji-eun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=667&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>N.Korea food crisis deepening&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/09/n-korea-food-crisis-deepening/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/09/n-korea-food-crisis-deepening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea&#8217;s severe food shortages are expected to worsen this year after a poor grain harvest in 2009. s The unification ministry, which handles cross-border relations, said the communist state produced an estimated 4.11 million tons of grain last year, a five percent drop from 4.3 million tons in 2008. Annual demand is 5.4 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=841&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Park released</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/05/robert-park-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American Christian activist Robert Park , having been detained in North Korea since the last Christmas, has been released and arrived in Beijing today. He will later be taken to the U.S. embassy. s s &#8230; according to comments attributed to Robert Park by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency, the North Koreans have convinced him that he was wrong in his view of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=828&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defector&#8217;s Testimony (4): Prisoners’ Sheds in the Detention Settlement</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/03/559/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/03/559/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In august 1987, we arrived at Life Detention Settlement No, 13 as newly recruited guards. When we saw the prisoners’ villages for the first time, all of us were very surprised and said to each other, “Hey, look, they must be the South Korean beggar villages that we used to watch on North Korean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=559&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News Update &#8211; February 1 2010</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/01/news-update-february-1-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/01/news-update-february-1-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[66 North Koreans Given Refugee Status in Canada: Canada granted 66 North Korean defectors refugee status in 2009, which is almost 10 times higher than in 2008, a report said Saturday. s N.Korea&#8217;s Weapons Exports &#8216;Down 90%&#8217; Since UN Sanctions, which included the banning of all arms exports from the country since last year. However, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=819&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DPRK currency reform update</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/31/dprk-currency-reform-update/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/31/dprk-currency-reform-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall food situation is severely worsening as prices soar in this year. Especially, the Rice price has soared more than tenfold of pre-currency revaluation price. According to Good Friends:   Those who are immediately affected by the horrifying increase of rice price are the residents with dearth of food saved at home. Households without food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=809&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MUST-WATCH: Crossing</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/30/crossing/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/30/crossing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crossing is the first major independent film to capture the dire situation of North Korean refugees and North Korea&#8217;s denial of human rights crisis, and is South Korea’s official entry for the 2009 Oscar Best Foreign Language Film category. &#8220;a &#8216;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8217; for North Korea.&#8221; &#8212; Wall Street Journal The film is about a North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=795&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American detained at Chinese border (update)</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/28/north-korea-says-detains-american-for-trespassing/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/28/north-korea-says-detains-american-for-trespassing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a month after the Korean-American missionary Robert Park&#8216;s voluntary entry into N.Korea, another American seems to have been detained. (AP) North Korea said today that it has detained an American man for trespassing on its border with China, the second arrest of a U.S. citizen by the communist regime in the past several weeks. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=777&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching North Koreans through Radio Broadcast</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/23/reaching-north-koreans-through-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Small radio-operations in South Korea aim to raise voices of hope and enlightenment by airing information to counter Pyongyang&#8217;s propaganda and by passing messages from North Korean defectors to their friends and relatives in North Korea.   Susan Chun of CNN reports the story of Kim Seong Min, the founder of Free North Korea Radio which is one of several Seoul-based radio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=363&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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