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Posts by Jaesung Ryu

Gaddafi’s Death and North Korea

by and Marcus Noland | October 30th, 2011 | 07:10 am

Since February we have been following North Korean-related aspects of the Libya saga.Unfortunately, the recent death of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi will not bring this sorry tale to a close. So far, North Korean media has not made any direct comments about Gaddafi’s death, perhaps because of uncertainty about how to “interpret” events in the Middle East [...]

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The Unification Education Front

by | October 26th, 2011 | 06:19 am

Recently, the Washington Post reported on how the younger South Korean generation is increasingly being disaffected by the idea of national unification, and how the Ministry of Unification (MOU) has been trying to fight against this trend. This led us to poke into what the MOU is doing, and we found that they are not [...]

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