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		<title>&#8220;My Father, Kim Jong Il, and I: Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s Exclusive Confession&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoji Gomi, Senior Staff Writer, Tokyo Shimbun, author of &#8220;My Father, Kim Jong Il, and I: Kim Jong Nam&#8217;s Exclusive Confession&#8221; gave press conference given at the Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club of Japan on Jan 24, 2012. For journalists, getting reliable information out of North Korea is notoriously difficult. Getting a one-on-one interview with an insider [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2108&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea: Kim Jong-un as Leader &#8211; How Pyonyang may change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinions differ as to what will be the eventual outcome of the death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il and the official transfer of power to his third son, Kim Jong-un. In an essay in the Sydney Morning Herald, AIIA member Hamish McDonald explores a range of possibilities. Apart from the possibility of change within the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2083&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rev. Kang Young-Sup dies at the age of 80</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Kang Young-Sup, the Chairperson of the Central Committee, the Korean Christian Federation in North Korea, passed away on the 21st of January 2012 at the age of 80. Kang, a family member of late Kim Jong Il, was the son of Kang Ryang Wook, the sixth cousin of Kang Dong Wook, Kim Il Sung’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2056&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Korean Realities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chung-in Moon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Drysdale (East Asia Forum, January 16th, 2012) One of the more momentous changes in Asia that heralded in the New Year was the sudden death of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, and the succession by his son, Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-il’s death had long been seen by some outside observers as portent for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2051&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The DPRK Interregnum: Window of Opportunity for the International Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Victor Hsu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Victor Hsu (Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, January 10, 2012) Now that the funeral of Kim Jong Il is over, it is time for the international community to explore avenues of engaging with the DPRK, rather than trying to read the tea leaves about who is in charge or whether Kim Jong Un [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2029&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards co-operative partnership with two Koreas</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/towards-co-operative-partnership-with-two-koreas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Northeast Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Leonid Petrov, Public speech at the Regional Meeting of ROK National Unification Advisory Council in Sydney, 28 Oct. 2011) In March 2008, the then newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared his foreign policy philosophy and promised that &#8220;during the course of the next three years, the world will see an increasingly activist Australian international [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2012&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Proposal for a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/a-proposal-for-a-nuclear-weapons-free-zone-in-northeast-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morton H. Halperin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(By Morton H. Halperin, Nautilus Institute, January 3, 2011) If the international community is seen to accept North Korea as even a de facto permanent nuclear power there would be a very serious deterioration of the security situation in East Asia and globally.  Notwithstanding the current consensus in both Japan and South Korea against developing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2007&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue, food aid for N. Korea needed: Rep. Manzullo</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/dialogue-food-aid-for-n-korea-needed-rep-manzullo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Lee Chi-dong, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2011 Yonhap) A senior U.S. congressman expressed support for the shipment of food aid to hunger-stricken North Korean people and also stressed the need for continued dialogue with the communist regime. Rep. Donald Manzullo, a Republican from Illinois who leads the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Kim Jong-il</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Sandra Fahy, USC Korean Studies Institute, Breaking News Brief Vol. 3, No. 2, December 19, 2011) Kim Jong-Il died of heart failure on December 17th 2011, what is the significance of his death for North Korea? In some ways the sky has fallen in North Korea. Refugees I met in Seoul and Tokyo said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=1999&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>은둔국가의 절대적인 지도자 김정은</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(김혜선 기자, 호주국민헤럴드 12月22日2011年)  ‘은둔국가의 절대적인 지도자’, ‘핵무기 개발로 일본과 한국 등 전세계를 위협하는 독재정치로 경재를 더욱 궁핍하게 만든 인물’, ‘기근과 경제적 어려움에도 야만적인 정권을 유지해온, 정치적으로 노련하고 무자비한 지도자’등은 세계언론들이 북한 김정일에 대한 다양한 평가들이다. 갑작스런 김정일의 사망을 둘러싸고 많은 의혹들과 미래의 남북한 문제들에 관한 여러 예견들이 난무한 가운데 본지는 12월 20일 시드니대학교 한국학과 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3137125&amp;post=1995&amp;subd=leonidpetrov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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