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Christine Ahn is a policy and research analyst with the Global Fund for Women and a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist.

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South Korea Cracks Down on Dissent

(8) Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 9:55 AM

On February 8, the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) raided the Seoul and Incheon offices of the South Korean NGO Solidarity for Peace and Reunification in Korea (SPARK) for violating the National Security Law (NSL). The NIS also searched the homes of two of SPARK's leadership, confiscated their notebooks...

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A Korean Spring?

(8) Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 3:41 PM

As 2011 came to a close, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il took the world by surprise (including the CIA which, like the rest of us, only learned of his passing 48 hours later). Given the dearth of understanding about North Korea in the West, the media...

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