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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 Pro-DPRK Koreans in Japan protest Asahi Shimbun coverageGroups alleges inaccuracy in report on post-Jang Song Thaek purges A delegation of the pro-Pyongyang federation of Korean residents in Japan visited the Tokyo headquarters of Japanese daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun on Monday to lodge a complaint against recent coverage about North Korea. The complaint was a response to a January 26 report by Asahi Shimbun which alleged that a wide-ranging execution of Jang Song Thaek’s aides is being continued in North Korea and that society is becoming more unstable following a Kim Jong Un orchestrated crackdown on dissent. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |