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North Korea sent thousands of its children on holiday to the capital Pyongyang this week, in what state media reported was a gift from the country’s new leader Kim Jong Un.

Twenty thousand youngsters from ordinary families all over the country have been invited to Pyongyang, with planes, trains, and buses laid on by the state to bring them to the capital.

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