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		<title>Food in the Dump</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/03/08/food-in-the-dump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Whatever You Like&#8221; by an American rapper, T.I., was a massive hit in the summer of 2008, topping  the charts for seven nonconsecutive weeks, and staying in the top 3 of the charts for over 3 months. In the song, an imaginary girl that goes out with T.I. is able to have whatever she likes, from champaign to clothes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>Some Suggestive Reading List</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/26/some-suggestive-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, North Korea received 300,000 tons of food aid. However, 1/3 of North Koreans still remain starved. s                                                                      Interview with a North Korean defector who survived in one of the most notorious Yoduk political prison camp. s                                                                        s It&#8217;s very positive to hear that North Korean defectors who now reside in South Korea voluntarily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1032&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>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>
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		<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>Opposite dimensions of food aid</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/04/feeding-the-hungry-or-the-elite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At times, South Korean policy on resuming the food aid to North Korea makes me doubt whether it is really aimed at saving lives. The government has decided to resume food aid to North Korea, which was stopped in summer 2007, and is considering when to start and how much to give. [….] Another government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=505&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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>U.S. Envoy Calls North Korean Rights Record ‘Appalling’</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/11/n-korea-criticized-on-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ U.S. Envoy Calls North Korean Rights Record ‘Appalling’ Human rights have been a flash point in already tense ties between rivals North Korea and the United States, but the issue has often been overshadowed by Washington&#8217;s attempts to prod Pyongyang back to sputtering nuclear disarmament talks. &#8220;It is one of the worst places in terms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=655&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Groups Smuggle Food into N.Korea</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/03/christian-groups-smuggle-food-into-n-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/03/christian-groups-smuggle-food-into-n-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Defector&#8217;s Testimony (2): The physical appearance of typical prisoners</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2009/12/03/the-physical-appearance-of-typical-prisoners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  When I first arrived at the detention settlement in November 1987, as young boy of 18, I was shocked to see prisoners in such miserable shape. Most of them were o poorly dressed, their clothes all patched-up. They covered their whole face with dirty rags revealing only their twinkling eyes. They were so short, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=566&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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