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N. Korea sets aggressive agenda for 2012

By Chico Harlan

 |  Washington Post  

  January 02, 2012

North Korea vowed an “all-out drive’’ Sunday toward economic prosperity, setting a vision for a nation with fewer food shortages, a stronger military and a people who defend their new supreme leader with their lives. “The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in defending Kim Jong Un unto death,’’ it said in a New Year’s editorial.

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