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<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">Just to let you know that the new issue of <em>Comparative Connections</em></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">includes what I think is the first full account and detailed analysis</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">in English of </font><font size="4">North Korea's ongoing bloodthirsty fulminations</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">against </font><font size="4">South Korea and especially its President, Lee Myung-bak.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">In over 40 years of following North Korea, I've read tons of rich</font></div>
<div><font size="4">DPRK invective - but never anything as bizarre and nasty as this.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">(They don't much care for Park Geun-hye, either; for all that she</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">dined with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang less than a decade ago.)</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">In case of interest, this article is freely available to all at</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><a target="_blank" href="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; "><font size="4">http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">The full issue, which as ever also has three further articles on Korea</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">covering the two Koreas' relations with the US, China and Japan,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">can be accessed at </font><a target="_blank" href="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; "><font size="4">http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections</font></a></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">All good wishes</font></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: large; "><font size="4">Aidan FC</font></div>
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