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Posts tagged "Middle East"

Newt Gingrich on North Korea

by | December 13th, 2011 | 06:24 am

In an earlier post, we looked at Mitt Romney’s foreign policy document, which was polished, thorough and a little stale. With Gingrich surging in the polls, we thought it would be interesting to check up on the Newt. Style is revealing: rather than a wonkish policy document, the foreign policy corner of Newt’s website offers [...]

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North Korea Earns More than $1 Billion from Workers Abroad. Or Not.

by | June 15th, 2011 | 05:46 am

On the basis of work by a Japanese NGO, Yonhap recently reported that the number of North Korean workers abroad had doubled, to nearly 70,000, placing 30,000 workers in Russia, 15,000 workers in the Middle East, 8,000 workers in China, Africa and Mongolia, and 5,000 workers in Southeast Asia and Eastern European countries, respectively. The [...]

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North Koreans in Libya: deliberate non-evacuation?

by | February 25th, 2011 | 09:21 am

Joking aside (we all know we can design cooler robots), Su Park at The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea alerted us to a Korean language article in one of the main South Korean newspapers, JoongAng Ilbo, that around 200 North Korean workers are still on Libyan soil and are not exiting the country [...]

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