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The Decider Defuses an Island Row

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Aug 07, 2008
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Almost the first thing embattled Korean President Lee Myung Bak did when George W Bush got off Air Force One today in Seoul was to thank the American president for personally intervening to defuse a crisis over a handful of rocks in the Sea of Japan after an obscure US government agency inadvertently inserted itself into a decades-old squabble between S…

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