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N. Korea's Kim gives New Year's address

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Jan. 1 called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that scientists showed in successfully testing a long-range rocket recently.

Kim's first New Year's speech, delivered on state TV, was peppered with rhetoric, with calls for boosting the military's capabilities and making the science and technology sector world class. But other passages in the speech were also an acknowledgement of the poor state of the country's economy, which has long lagged behind the rest of the region.

North Korea, which has little arable land, is prone to natural disasters and struggles to grow enough food for its 24 million people.

The annual New Year's Day message lays out North Korea's policy goals for the year. (AP)


Shukan ST: JANUARY 11, 2013

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