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Seoul Mayor's Election: Grenade in the Blue House Bunker

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Nov 02, 2011
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South Korea’s extreme-right conservatives are in seeming shock over last Wednesday’s mayoral election in Seoul, as if the victor, an independent candidate named Park Won-soon, had brought a group of pro-North Korean followers into office with him.

In fact, the debacle visited on the ruling Grand National Party probably means a diminution of the harsh rhe…

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