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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in Beijing from Nanjing by train on Wednesday apparently for a summit meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Kim arrived in Beijing Station at around 9 a.m. (local time) by his special train and headed in the direction of Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
(Yonhap News)　
　　　
Robert King to address human rights issue in N. Korea
A US delegation led by North Korea Human Rights Envoy Robert King has landed in Pyeongyang to assess the state of the North‘s food crisis.
The eight delegates will be divided up into two teams. The first, headed by King himself, will meet with senior North Korean officials to discuss ways to improve monitoring of the regime’s aid distribution until Saturday. And the second team will travel to the impoverished Jagang and South Hamgyeong provinces before returning home on June 2nd.
Meanwhile, the US State Department said King, making his first visit to the North in his current post, will also raise “appropriate human rights issues.”
(Arirang News)
　
MLTM announces further land sales deregulation　　
The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced Tuesday that restrictions on transactions of 2,153.55㎢ of land, or 48 percent of the 4,496㎢ nationwide subject to government permission, will be lifted on May 31.
Under the decision, buying and selling high-priced land in the Gaepo-dong neighborhood of Seoul’s Gangnam district, Jangji-dong of the Songpa district, and Gugi-dong of the Jongno district will also be free from restrictions.
The area subject to government permission for transactions will be reduced to a seventh of 17,275㎢ in late 2008 after consecutive massive deregulations of land transactions by Lee Myung-bak administration.
　
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