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Kang Tae-jun
Tae-jun Kang is the NK News East Asia Correspondent and is based in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a riot police officer in South Korea for two years.
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News International Olympic Committee suspends assistance to N. KoreaMoney to help further expansion of sports in DPRK The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended financial assistance to North Korean athletes as a result of their failure to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Washington D.C. based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday. An official at the IOC told RFA that the Olympic body provided financial support to three North Korean athletes from November 2011 to the end of 2013, but suspended assistance after none of the athletes qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |