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US envoys: Progress in North Korea food aid talks
Mar 7th, 2012
U.S. envoys say they are making progress in talks with North Korean counterparts on arrangements for the first U.S. government food aid shipment to the impoverished North in three years. (Source: Associated Press) -
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