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James Fretwell
James Fretwell is a writer based in Seoul, South Korea. He was an analyst at NK News, and he has often discussed the two Koreas in interviews on the BBC, ABC News Australia, Deutsche Welle and elsewhere.
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Evergreen “The 3.1 People’s Uprising”: how North Korea sees the March First MovementDPRK historians assert Kim Il Sung's anti-Japanese guerilla exploits won independence from Japanese colonial rule This Sunday marks the 101st anniversary of the March First Movement. In early 1919, Koreans rose up in the first nationwide political protest against Japanese rule (Korea had become a protectorate of Japan in 1905 and was then annexed in 1910). © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |