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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Martin Fackler / The Bulletin
May 26, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — When North Korea suddenly announced Monday that it had conducted a second nuclear test, the initial view across the region was that this was yet another defiant gambit by the North to extract more concessions from Washington.
That has been the oft-repeated pattern....