Sunday, June 6, 2010

Lee Sharpens Rhetoric at Pyongyang



By EVAN RAMSTAD SINGAPORE – South Korean President Lee Myung-bak over the weekend sharpened his criticism of North Korea for the alleged sinking of one the South's warships, but acknowledged his country can't go to war over it. Mr. Lee's statements to different audiences during a Singapore stay made plain the difficulty of balancing the desire to penalize North Korea with the worries that many South Koreans feel —and some expressed in an election of local officeholders last week—about what North Korea will do if antagonized. During his visit, Mr. Lee didn't acknowledge the losses his political party took in the local elections, which some analysts attribute to voters being...

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