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		<title>China-N. Korea Ties Emphacised in Xi&#8217;s Letter to Kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following the outburst of North Korean missile launches, Xi Jinping’s memorandum sent to Kim Jong Un can be seen as a strong diplomatic signal of China’s improving relations with the US. The Chinese president’s communication to his Comrade in Pyongyang shows more of his willingness to support Joe Biden and his perception of ‘regional and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COVID-19 in North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rather than creating chaos in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the COVID-19 pandemic has been turned into an opportunity for the Kim dynasty to further tighten its grip on power, Leonid Petrov writes. On 23 January 2020, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) became the first country in the world to shut its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The International Forum on One Korea Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re excited to showcase our second webinar in our 2020 virtual forum series with &#8220;Free and Unified Korea: Northeast Asia Regional Collaboration on Denuclearization and Economic Integration.&#8221; This virtual event is less than a day away! The forum will be accessible at 8:55 PM Seoul time and 7:55 AM New York time on September 30th. For your convenience, we will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AACAPS webinar &#8220;75 years since the end of World War II: commemoration and historical understanding&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three quarters of a century have passed since the end of the most catastrophic military conflagration in human history: World War II. Paradoxically, however, the more that time passes the more we seem to remember it, in official and popular culture: commemorations, memorials, movies and books, above all in Post-Soviet Russia. Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s driving North Korea&#8217;s actions toward the South?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Inter-Korean Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geumgangsan Mt. Resort]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Deutsche Welle (2020/07/14) Leonid Petrov, a former chair of Korean Studies at the Institut d&#8217;Etudes Politiques de Paris, says the North&#8217;s destruction of the liaison office is intended as a sign that &#8220;Pyongyang does not need Seoul any more in the context of this new Cold War.” Whereas North Korea was frantically trying to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Trillion Dollar Battle Over North Korea&#8217;s Rare Earth Elements Is Just Beginning</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 05:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA["Just as the Cold War split the world along ideological lines, this new struggle for resources will create fissures between those who have access to rare metal resources and those who do not."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Love the North Korean Style: Alek Sigley’s Misfortune is a Coded Message</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last weekend the world was baffled by the statement of the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) which explained why Alek Sigley, the Australian student who had studied at the Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang, was detained, investigated and expelled. Nobody, including seasoned North Korea watchers, could make sense of this brief but eloquent statement that became viral among Western media even before it appeared on the KCNA official site. The statement lambasted Mr Sigley for secretly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Luck had nothing to do with Alek Sigley&#8217;s escape from North Korea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 15:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Opinion by Leonid Petrov, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 2019) The last two weeks have been eventful in the contemporary story of North Korea. The first visit of China’s President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang was followed by the first visit to the Demilitarised Zone by US President Donald Trump. There he met North Korean [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Trump thanks Kim Jong-un for releasing US prisoners from North Korea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 12:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Daniel Hurst, Tokyo, 10 May 2018) President Trump has thanked Kim Jong-un for the release of three American prisoners who have begun to describe their detention in North Korea. Kim Dong-chul, Kim Hak-song and Tony Kim, who were released after Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, met Kim Jong-un yesterday, were taken to hospital in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can the 3rd inter-Korean summit end the 70 years of Hot and Cold Wars in Korea?</title>
		<link>https://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/can-the-3rd-inter-korean-summit-end-the-70-years-of-hot-and-cold-wars-in-korea/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Petrov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In have completely different political motives and goals, but strangely their intentions coincided this year. Kim desperately needs to steer North Korea away from an imminent disaster (a nuclear war, a domestic upheaval or both). Moon, in contrast, needs to keep South Korea in the comfort zone of US alliance and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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