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Article: RUSSIA: NORTH KOREA IS ABOUT TO INAUGURATE A LOCAL ORTHODOX CHURCH.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 26, 2003
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According to Interfax.ru, an Orthodox church is about to be established in North Korea. Father Nikolai Balashov, the Russian Orthodox Church's official envoy, has reported that the idea to build an Orthodox church in North Korea came about by North Korean leader Kim Chong-il. "The church to be built in Pyongyang will not be an exact replica of a Moscow church. It will combine the main features of ...