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Peace march women set to cross the DMZ
Thirty-strong group includes Nobel laureates

by Our Foreign Desk

FEMALE peace activists arrived in North Korea yesterday ahead of a planned march across the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) to South Korea.

Participants in the peace march include Nobel laureates Mairead Maguire and Leymah Gbowee and US feminist campaigner Gloria Steinem.

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