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  • North Korea: And still they starve

    08/05/2004 6:47:58 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies · 417+ views
    Asia Times ^ | 08/05/-4 | Aidan Foster-Carter
    North Korea: And still they starve By Aidan Foster-Carter What's news? In my country, apparently, it's the rutting of three unmarried people who work - or did - for England's Football Association. (FA for short, perhaps appropriately.) Not that such trivia wholly blots out the real world. As ever, crises come and go. Darfur in Sudan is currently the new flavor of the month, and rightly so. But our attention spans are short, and the media circus will soon move on to horrors new. Darfur may still fester, but it will be off our television screens. As TS Eliot said,...