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Article: North Korea faults United States; South Korea draws praise in final propaganda message
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2004
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - With warm words for South Korea, North
Korean loudspeakers blared a final propaganda message that
reverberated across the demilitarized zone just before midnight: "We,
from one blood and using one language, can no longer live separated."
The last broadcast in decades of strident exchanges included harsh
words for the United States - "the root cause of suffering and
misfortune that our people are experiencing."
The two Koreas agreed to halt the broadcasts beginning Tuesday,
the fourth anniversary of a summit between their leaders. The war of
words along the heavily fortified no-man's-land dates to the 1950-53
Korean War that devastated the peninsula and left tens of ...