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989:Immigrants and expatriates in Korea
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140:Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
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296:Choe, Sang-hun (April 25, 2014).
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1213:Demographics of North Korea
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192:Edwards, Paul M. (2000).
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19:Americans in North Korea
771:United Empire Loyalists
607:Black Hebrew Israelites
256:Jenkins, Charles Robert
48:holding any Americans.
41:U.S. Defense Department
33:On September 17, 1996,
104:Charles Robert Jenkins
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92:James Joseph Dresnok
68:Operation Big Switch
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86:Larry Allen Abshier
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