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Ha-young Choi
Ha-young Choi was an NK News correspondent based in Seoul. She studied Korean history, mainly focusing on modern Korean history at Korea University. Follow her on twitter @Hy_Choi0826
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News Seoul’s N.Korean human rights bill stuck in National AssemblyOne sentence reveals fundamental differences in ruling, opposition parties' priorities, causes delay Failure by South Korea's major political parties to reach an agreement on a single sentence could prevent the North Korean human rights bill from passing in the near future, events in Seoul on Friday suggested. While South Korea's two main political parties previously declared that they had reached a breakthrough on the bill and that its passage was imminent, they failed to produce a final version of the bill on Friday, citing differences in preferred language. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |