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Top North Korean defector dies at 87 (AP)

October 10th, 2010

File - In this April 10, 2007 file photo, Hwang Jang-yop, a former senior member of the North Korea's ruling Workers' Party who defected to South Korea in 1997, salutes during the Committee for Democratization of North Korea in Seoul, South Korea. A police official said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 that Hwang, 88, had died, but could not offer any additional details. South Korea's YTN television and Yonhap news agency both reported the death with YTN reporting he was found dead at his home in Seoul. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - He was the intellectual force behind the philosophy of self-reliance that guided North Korea and a top official in the Workers’ Party that still rules the communist nation.


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