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Don't fall for charm offensive, keep North 'under siege': chief of Lower House foreign affairs panel
by Isabel Reynolds
South Korea must stay in line with U.S. and Japanese plans to keep North Korea "under siege," the chairman of the Lower House committee on foreign affairs said, referring to the policy of maintaining maximum pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime. Just days after Kim's ...