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Thu 12 Dec 2008'Propaganda missiles' latest test of patience for beleaguered N Korea
FAMINE, ISOLATION, a collapsing economy and a leader reportedly near death - times are tough for North Korea, writes David McNeillin Tokyo
And now another irritant has arrived to test the patience of the time-warped Stalinist state: balloons! For weeks, anti-Pyongyang protesters have gathered near the demilitarised zone that separates the divided peninsula and launched hundreds of hydrogen-filled "propaganda missiles" north of the border.
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