CHINA-NORTH KOREA: KIM JUNG UN CONDOLES DEATH OF MAOIST PAPER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Diao Weiming, Editor-in-Chief of the prominent Maoist website 'Utopia' died in a crash with 36 other people during a tour to North Korea. An official of the Utopia-owned travel company Spark, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had said news of the crash brought him "uncontrollable grief" and the North Korean media said he visited the two Chinese survivors of the crash in hospital this week and visited the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang to "express his deep sympathy." The Spark Travel website bills its North Korea tours as a symbol of the "great friendship cemented by the blood relationship between the people of China and the DPRK." Prominent leftist and Peking University professor Kong Qingdong tweeted his condolences and grief over the bus crash earlier this week, but his post was later deleted by government censors.
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