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		<title>North Korean Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/10/05/north-korean-propaganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poster smuggled from North Korea showed a sailor smashing an enemy ship, splitting it in two. Suspiciously, the Cheonan was also split in 2, resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors. North Korea has also handed out medals to a submarine crew. From New York Times: North Korea adds insult to injury By Choe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Protests Over Killing of Smugglers by North Korean Guards</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/06/09/chinese-protests-over-killing-of-smugglers-by-north-korean-guards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China, a life-long communist ally of North Korea, protested at the killing of 3 Chinese smugglers by North Korean guards. They were said to be smuggling copper wire from North Korea. This event could not have come at a more inappropriate period, since it was not too long ago that North Korea attacked and sank a South Korean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1101&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Day in North Korea</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/05/10/kim-il-sung-and-kim-jung-il-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second week of May is always annually recognized around the world for Mother&#8217;s Day, just as it was in South Korea this weekend.  On May 6th, another meaningful event was held in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, where elderly North Korean refugees were served with North Korean food. The refugees relished the food, some even saving it for later. At the same time, many shed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=1077&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>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/13/portsmouth-man-describes-north-koreas-closed-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ban</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Ban</dc:creator>
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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>Opposite dimensions of food aid</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/04/feeding-the-hungry-or-the-elite/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/02/04/feeding-the-hungry-or-the-elite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ban</dc:creator>
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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>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>Reaching North Koreans through Radio Broadcast</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/23/reaching-north-koreans-through-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/23/reaching-north-koreans-through-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ban</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>News Update 20 January 2010</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/20/news-update-20-january-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/20/news-update-20-january-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korean Human Rights Body Breaks Silence on Abuses in North Korea     - South Korea&#8217;s government-funded human rights watchdog has issued its first report on widespread abuses in North Korea. This is the  first report issued by South Korea&#8217;s government-funded human rights watchdog on North Korea&#8217;s alleged abuses.  v North Korea toughens punishment for defectors: U.N. envoy    [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=748&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Signals Reveal N.Korea&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/18/mixed-signals-reveal-n-koreas-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/18/mixed-signals-reveal-n-koreas-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Korean leadership in these days seems just too perplexed to clarify its diplomatic stance amid difficult questions like whether it should return to the six-party nuclear talks, what to do with Robert Park, and whether it should humble itself down to make &#8220;concessions&#8221; to accept the foreign food aid, especially from South Korea. Businessweek just featured an interesting article about North Korea&#8217;s mixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=734&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News Updates</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/12/678/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eyoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. brushes off North Korea&#8217;s call for a peace treaty North Korea proposed Monday signing a peace treaty this year to formally end the Korean War, a suggestion that Washington quickly dismissed. In a move seen as an attempt to bolster its negotiating position, the isolated communist regime said a return to negotiations on its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=678&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>N.Korea&#8217;s New Currency Breakdown</title>
		<link>http://nkhra.net/2010/01/09/n-koreas-new-currency-breakdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currency reform is part of North Korea&#8217;s occassional aggressive crackdown on free markets. The recent currency reform in North Korea has confiscated the savings of small businesses and forbidden the use of foreign money, and is now causing hyper-inflation and contributing to food shortages. The Seoul-based Open Radio for North Korea (ORNK), citing unidentified sources along the Sino-North Korean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nkhra.net&amp;blog=8240674&amp;post=647&amp;subd=nkhra&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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