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Article: Korean Americans in New York Aid North Korea Train Blast Victims.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- April 28, 2004
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NEW YORK, April 28 (Yonhap) -- New York's Korean-American community is uniting to help North Korean train blast victims, collecting donations and cooperating with world relief agencies. Several Korean associations here, including the Korean Community in New York, which represents 450,000 people, are holding fund-raising campaigns for people in Ryongchon, a city bordering China, where a train explosion killed at least 161 people and left thousands homeless last week, organizers said. "Staffers of the Korean Community held emergency meetings and decided to campaign for donations in unity," Kim Ki-chul, the group's chairman, said.The ...