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06-25-2012, 05:24 AM
Disproportionate numbers of women are losing their jobs at state companies in North Korea, a new report says. As they gravitate to work in quasi-legal markets, women are running afoul of the police and the state's harsh penal system, a trend that could worsen if Kim Jong-un's regime reinstates more rigid control of the economy.

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