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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 S. Korea offers to help North over foot and mouth disease outbreakSouth Korea offers disinfectants and preventative medicines to help contain outbreak of FMD The South Korean government announced on Monday that it is willing to provide disinfectants and preventative medicines to North Korea to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) recently declared to have broken out there. A government official told reporters that Seoul had informed Pyongyang that it was willing to provide humanitarian and technical assistance to help contain the spread of the disease in North Korea. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |