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A Hotter Potato in Northeast Asia

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Apr 09, 2009
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In this age of global economic and political uncertainties, Northeast Asia was gripped by North Korea's April 5 event to launch an experimental communications satellite into orbit. Consequently, the event marked the isolated communist state's return to the world stage or at least it seemed, although the US and its allies claim that it failed technically.

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