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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| Odd partnership: Ties warm between India and North Korea |
| 2015-09-27 |
| [AlAhram] It's not the most obvious international friendship. On one side is the world's largest democracy, with its riotous collection of battling political parties and a freewheeling media with thousands of newspapers, TV stations and websites. On the other is a deeply isolated nation, a country with no political opposition and a media that does not question the long-ruling family. Access to the Internet, except for a handful of government-approved websites, is restricted to a tiny elite. But ties are warming between New Delhi and Pyongyang, with mineral-hungry India looking to boost trade while  North Korea, facing sometimes-rocky relations with China, searches for new friends."We feel that there should not be the usual old hurdles and suspicion," Kiren Rijiju, a top official in India's home ministry told The Hindu newspaper after a recent meeting with North Korea's ambassador. "We have been discussing inside the government ways and means of upgrading bilateral ties." |
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