It's amazing what does and doesn't make the AmeriKan War Dailies, huh?"Tourist fatally shot in N. Korea" by Blaine Harden, Washington Post | July 12, 2008 TOKYO - In his speech at the opening session of the newly elected National Assembly, President Lee Myung-bak went further than he had before in suggesting that his get-tough policy toward the North may have been mistaken and that South Korean humanitarian aid should not be interrupted by a change of leadership in Seoul. He got tough because of U.S. pressure no doubt.North Korea has come to depend on South Korean aid to prop up a centralized farming system that almost always fails to produce enough food to feed the country's 23 million people. Lee's presidency has been hurt by street demonstrations against the purported mad cow disease dangers of imported US beef. Yeah,...
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