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South Korea has a Burma Problem

South Korea has a Burma Problem

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Aug 24, 2007
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The announcement Wednesday that South Korean engineers had found a record natural gas field in Burma could hardly come at a worse time for Seoul, if it bothers to consider the irony.

A day earlier, a Seoul court recalled a time when South Korea’s human rights record was among the worst in the world by awarding a record US$26 million in damages to the fam…

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