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		<title>What Did Kim Jong-il Want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 16:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Leonid Petrov, The University of Sydney) Speculations about the Last Will and Testament of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, who died on 17 December last year, are mounting and raise many questions about the future of inter-Korean relations. Separate parts of the alleged document have been recently obtained by the South Korean think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2597&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates or Hawks: Who Hijacked the Chinese Fishing Boats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Leonid Petrov, The University of Sydney) China often describes its relations with North Korea, its closest regional ally, as intimate but not substantial. For more than half a century, Beijing’s attitude towards the Korean peninsula has revolved around the avoidance of three scenarios: ‘No new war on the Korean peninsula’; ‘No regime change in North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2584&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northeast Asia &#8211; a Region without Regionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 09:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Leonid Petrov for East Asia Forum, 23 May 2012) Last week once again demonstrated to the world the sad truth about the inability of Northeast Asian nations to establish good working relations in political and economic spheres. The ambitious plan to build a Free Trade Zone across China, South Korea and Japan was pompously declared, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2570&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Like Father, Like Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(James Giggacher&#8217;s inteview with Leonid Petrov, ANU Reporter, May 2012) On a frosty winter’s day in December last year North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il breathed his last breath. Steely, yet teary-eyed reporters from the country’s official news agency told the world the 69-year-old had “passed away from great mental and physical strain”. Later reports would reveal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2564&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success of &#8220;Unsuccessful&#8221; Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Korea news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that on 13 April North Korea has deliberately aborted the launch of its Unha-3 rocket by letting the first stage of the booster to blow up just one minute after the lift-off. By so doing, the DPRK has avoided the situation where it would have been shot down by South Korean or Japanese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2540&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ballistic Blackmail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(John Larkin, &#8220;Asia 360: News in Context&#8221; 30 March 2012) To the outside world, North Korea’s latest diplomatic provocation is a puzzling reversal, to say the least. As a by-product of Pyongyang’s ruthless pursuit of regime survival however, it just might make perfect sense. Less than three weeks after signing a deal with the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2537&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/north-koreas-100th-to-celebrate-or-to-surrender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gavan McCormack (&#8220;North Korea&#8217;s 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?&#8221; The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 14, No 2, April 2, 2012) On 16 March 2012, North Korea announced that it would launch an earth observation satellite named Kwangmyongsong (Lodestar) 3, aboard an Unha carrier rocket sometime between the hours of 7 am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2535&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/south-korean-social-movements-in-the-20th-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Volume 1 of &#8220;Asia&#8217;s Unknown Uprisings: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century&#8221; by George Katsiaficas has been published by PM Press in Oalkland, CA. Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2529&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia and China on the North Korean plan to launch a rocket</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/why-russia-and-china-are-quiet-about-north-koreas-plan-to-launch-a-rocket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia urges North Korea to refrain from rocket launch (Reuters 16 March 2012) Russia expressed serious concern on Friday over North Korea&#8217;s plan to launch a satellite and urged Pyongyang not to create hurdles to the revival of six-nation talks over its nuclear programme. &#8220;The announcement about an upcoming launch of a satellite by (North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2519&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History Wars and Reconciliation: Korea at the Centre</title>
		<link>http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/history-wars-and-reconciliation-korea-at-the-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonid Petrov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seminar by Dr Leonid Petrov, Department of Korean Studies, University of Sydney 5.30pm &#8211; 7pm, Thursday 15 March Common Room, School of Languages &#38; Cultures, Room 524, Brennan-McCallum Building (A18) Lecture abstract:  Due to its central geographical position and nationalistic cultural policies, Korea is entangled in several territorial, historiographical and cultural heritage disputes with its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leonidpetrov.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3137125&#038;post=2516&#038;subd=leonidpetrov&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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