Analysts were quick to see the shelling as a deliberate North Korean provocation, some linking it to the need for food aid, which has been largely denied by South Korea and strangled by international and United States sanctions. Adding to the North's internal calculus, the ailing leader, Kim Jong-il, has been positioning his youngest son as his successor. |
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