Reply #66: trouble ahead? --Seoul agonizes over feeding the North

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MD07Dg01.html

BEIJING - Things got Byzantine on Monday as a former United States ambassador to South Korea, Donald Gregg, jumped into the hot water of a debate: whether the international community should resume food aid to North Korea. He is for it. South Korea is against it.

Writing in The Korea Times, South Korea's oldest English-language newspaper, Gregg eloquently argued for the provision of food to North Korea, backing his argument with conversations he had had with individuals who had just returned from the North on the severity of the food crisis. "I devoutly hope ... Seoul and Washington can come together in agreement on the need for humanitarian food aid being rushed to North Korea," he concluded.