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Book Talk: The fall and rise of a North Korean Everyman (Reuters)

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Reuters - Pak Jun Do is a dutiful North Korean. Raised in an orphanage, he follows orders to become a soldier, a kidnapper of Japanese citizens and an intelligence officer, once submitting to being bitten by a shark to prove his loyalty.

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