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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 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 (26th February, 2017) The announcement on North Korean state radio could not have been more blood curdling. They decreed that Park Sang-hak, a fugitive from Kim [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2016) One day, when he was 25 years old, Park Sang-hak was strolling around a huge square in the North Korean port [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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