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Korea’s Flailing President

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May 20, 2008
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Hit by party infighting and the mishandling of controversial US beef imports, the administration of President Lee Myung Bak is drifting only three months after its inauguration.

With a wide range of interest groups attacking him for reopening the domestic beef market to foreign imports, and with the police and other authorities criticized for overreactin…

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