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Rowan Callick is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He has worked and lived in Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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Participants perform mass rhythmic exercise on the occasion of the first sports day this year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

Seoul dancing away from US

North Korea has already begun recruiting young women for the cheer squad it will send to the Winter Olympics next month.

Rowan Callick

The World

(FILES) This file handout photo released by the Liu's family and taken on October 22, 2002 shows Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo (L) and his wife Liu Xia in Beijing. China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, aged 61, official said. / AFP PHOTO / LIU FAMILY / Handout / - China OUT / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Nobel widow to leave China

The widow of the first Nobel peace laureate to die in captivity since Nazi Germany will be allowed to leave China.

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The World

This handout photo provided by the South Korean Unification Ministry shows North Korea's chief delegate Kwon Hyok-Bong (L) and South Korea's chief delegate Lee Woo-Sung (R), a senior official at Seoul's Culture Ministry, walking into a conference room before their meeting on the North's side of the border in the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on January 15, 2018. North and South Korea began talks on January 15 on appearances by performers from Pyongyang's state-run artistic troupes at next month's Winter Olympics in the South, after the North agreed to attend the Games. / AFP PHOTO / South Korean Unification Ministry / Handout / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Band lights up Korean talks

Renewed talks between North and South Korea focus on plans for North Korean artists to perform at the Winter Olympics.

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The World

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, shakes hands with the head of North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon during their meeting at the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea. South Korea said Saturday that North Korea proposed that their talks next week address a North Korean art troupe's visit to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, rather than the participation of the nationâ€™s athletes. (Korea Pool via AP)

Two Koreas plan second round

Rushed arrangements were made at the weekend for a further meeting between officials from North and South Korea.

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The Nation

Job ID GR1411201502. The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with world leaders China's President Xi Jinping, UK The Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama during a trip to Turkey for the G20. The PM met with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 15th November 2015. Picture Gary Ramage

China critics draw more fire

Prominent Chinese experts on international affairs have intensified their assault on the Turnbull government’s growing critiques of Beijing’s influence.

Rowan Callick

The World