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	<title>Leonid Petrov's KOREA VISION</title>
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	<description>Views and opinions on Korea (North and South)</description>
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		<title>Lifting sanctions on NK brings little change</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/lifting-sanctions-on-nk-brings-little-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No longer an &#8220;enemy&#8221; or &#8220;sponsor of terrorism&#8221; state, North Korea has now been promoted to a state with a lot of sanctions. With the rhetoric gone, the substance of the restrictions placed on the DPRK still remains. However, given the relative silence from the DPRK following a brief statement that they were &#8220;pleased&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyongyang Holds Science and Technology Book Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL (Yonhap) &#8212; North Korea, which has limited channels to upgrade its science and technology due to its reclusiveness, held its annual international book fair for promoting exchanges of science and technology in late June.
The (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 23 said the Sixth Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 дней реформ Ли Мён Бака</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/100-%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b9-%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%84%d0%be%d1%80%d0%bc-%d0%bb%d0%b8-%d0%bc%d1%91%d0%bd-%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%ba%d0%b0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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by Leonid Petrov, 
Seoulsky Vestnik (No. 120) July 2008.
Три месяца спустя после прихода к власти новой администрации в Республике Корея, страну захлестнула волна массовых антиправительственных демонстраций, забастовок, и нарастающих призывов к импичменту президента. В июне правительство в полном составе подало в отставку, а сам президент Ли Мён Бак был вынужден дважды извиняться перед народом за [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s economic slide picks up speed</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/north-korea%e2%80%99s-economic-slide-picks-up-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joongang Ilbo (North Korea’s economic slide picks up speed 2008/06/19)  North Korea’s economy shrank 2.3 percent in 2007 from a year earlier, its second straight year of contraction as devastating floods hit harvests, the South Korean central bank said yesterday.
The Bank of Korea estimated that the country’s gross domestic product shrank more than twice as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are all North Koreans&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After the attacks of September 11, 2001, “We are all Americans” briefly became a popular expression of solidarity around the world. If we don’t devise policy choices that address energy, agriculture, and climate, while replacing the idolatry of unrestrained growth at the heart of both capitalist and communist economies, the tagline for the 21st century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis of Representative Democracy in South Korea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Continuing mass protests across South Korea have been predicted and are not surprising. Although some people tend to see in the wave of public disobedience a mere anti-Americanism, experts and political analysts identify deeper reasons for discontent.
&#8216;Suip-kogi&#8217; [imported beef] or &#8216;Mije&#8217; [American imperialism] is only a pretext for the 96,000-strong demonstration to vent people&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel to North Korea to see ARIRANG show (30 Aug.- 4 Sep.)</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/travel-to-north-korea-to-see-arirang-30-aug-4-sep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the Grand Mass Game and Artistic Performance “Arirang” will be staged from 1 Aug. until 30 Sep. every evening. In addition to &#8220;Arirang&#8221;, a new project - &#8220;Prosper the Motherland!&#8221; dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK - will be run every afternoon. Guests and visitors to the Beijing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Crossing&#8221; - a New Film about Life in NK</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/crossing-a-new-film-about-life-in-nk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 15:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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There have been no accurate films about life in the DPRK With the contentious exception of &#8220;The Person Who Remains in My Heart&#8221; (1989) and &#8220;A Schoolgirl&#8217;s Diary&#8221; (2006) the North Koreans themselves prefer not to produce anything close to reality. The South Korean filmmakers do not exactly know what happens inside the borders of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel to NKorea for Business and Pleasure (6 Sep.-10/13 Sep.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Leaders in tourism and hospitality are invited to visit North Korea to meet with colleagues, to discuss business, and to enjoy the Arirang Mass Gymnastics show. If you have time, explore the remote North Hamgyong and Ryanggang provinces of the DPRK.


The 60th anniversary of DPRK foundation will be celebrated by a brand-new 100,000-men special Gymnastics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyongyang&#8217;s &#8220;soft approach&#8221; towards US criticised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily NK (2008-05-13) carries an interesting story, which hints at the brewing public unrest in North Korea. People seem to be losing trust in their leadership due to Pyongyang&#8217;s &#8220;soft&#8221; approach towards the United States, and &#8220;hard&#8221; approach towards jangmadang markets.
Some parts of this text are mistranslated (바치다 means &#8220;to yield&#8221; or &#8220;surrender&#8221; rather [...]]]></description>
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