north korea calls australian offshore detention 'a bit much'.

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Half of S. Koreans reluctant to see NK relatives (Korea Times)
About half of elderly South Koreans who may have relatives living in North Korea do not want to see them again for various reasons, according to data from the Ministry of Unification.

North Korea Calls Australian Offshore Detention 'A Bit Much' (SBS)
North Korea, a brutal dictatorship with a laundry list of human rights violations to its name, has used the recent United Nations forum in Geneva to criticise Australia's offshore detention regime.

Trial operation for 1st coastal express railway in NE China (Xinhua)
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U.S. human rights envoy to visit S. Korea (Yonhap News)
The U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues will visit Seoul later this week for meetings with South Korean officials, the State Department announced Monday.

News of historic Party Congress elicits sighs (Daily NK)
On October 30th, North Korea announced that it will hold the seventh Congress of the Korean Workers’ Party sometime in May of 2016.