N. Korea retracts order to being back offspring of diplomats abroad: sources
SEOUL, June 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea recently retracted its order that all offspring accompanying its diplomats stationed abroad return home in the face of strong resistance from them, sources here said Sunday.
It is rare for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to reverse a decision amid reports of loosening discipline in the isolated, impoverished communist state with the influx of capitalism and Western culture after the inter-Korean rapprochement following the unprecedented inter-Korean summit in 2000.
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