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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (28th March, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (21st November, 2023) When Kim Seungeun first visited North Korea, he saw a barren land devastated by famine, its trees stripped by people desperate to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea&#8217;s &#8216;Supreme Leader&#8217; Kim Jong Un clapped along to songs at a concert by famous pop [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 21st, 2020) The language was the usual frothing mixture of aggression, bluster and insult that has become familiar from the North [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) When Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office 16 months ago, he promised ‘the hour of action’ had arrived. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to solve the North Korea crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (14th August, 2017) It would take just 14 minutes for a missile fired from North Korea to reach Guam and military leaders in Pyongyang [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) Kim Jong-Un is leader of the world’s most repressive nation, the third generation ruler of a dynastic dictatorship that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 06:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (11th May, 2017) The Sunshine Policy of engagement between the two Koreas ran for a decade until 2008, won the Noble Prize for its originator, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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