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North frees detained cross-border South Korean worker

By BY HYUNG-JIN KIM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 5:23 a.m.

A South Korean worker detained for months in North Korea returned home Thursday after the communist nation freed him, brightening prospects for improved relations between the rival nations.

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