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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (28th March, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (21st October, 2024) The image is one for the history books: four ageing white men, sitting stiffly in their suits beneath a Picasso [&#8230;]]]></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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					<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 The Mail on Sunday (22nd December, 2019) The&#160;Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights groups for continuing to use aid money intended [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (11th June, 2018) Kang Chol-hwan was sent to one of North Korea’s death camps aged nine under its policy of punishing entire families for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (14th May, 2018) The Today programme on Radio 4 often sets the news agenda with tough interviews and taut foreign analysis. Yet on Saturday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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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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