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South Korea President’s North Korea Policy Backfires

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Jul 16, 2008
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Five months is a blip in the 55-year history of the military confrontation between North and South Korea, but for South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, who came to office in February promising new thinking in the policy on the North, it was evidently far too long for his patience.

On July 11, within days of the anniversary of the 1953 armistice agreement…

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