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North Korea pledges support for Women’s DMZ Peace March
May 4, 2015 by Son Won-je
North Korea has announced plans to support a walk across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) by female peace activists from around the world.
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N. Korea to hold int’l women’s grand march in May
May 3, 2015 by Yonhap
North Korea will hold an international grand march festival later this month, the country’s state media reported, in an apparent move to support a group of women peacemakers attempting to cross the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas.
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Gloria Steinem on why she’s going to North Korea
May 1, 2015 by Anna Fifield
A group of women’s rights activists will head to North Korea later this month to hold a peace rally and then walk across the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the Korean peninsula for more than 60 years. They will then hold peace-related events in Seoul, South Korea.
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Continuing the Centennial Work of Women and Citizen Diplomacy in Korea
April 28, 2015 by Christine Ahn
A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.
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Dangerous, isolated and primed for war? North Korean clichés debunked
April 27, 2015 by Hazel Smith
Global media remain fascinated with North Korea’s supposed weirdness. Yet on the face of it, the North Korean government is neither uniquely authoritarian nor the population uniquely economically badly off.
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