View source for North Korea's nuclear test puts onus on China, S. Korea

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|author=USA Today editorial board
|source=USA Today
|date=October 9, 2006
|url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/10/post_3.html
|quote="Cutting Kim's lifeline, at least temporarily, might sound draconian. Many of North Korea's 23 million people could starve. But the masses are already starving. Some reportedly subsist on tree bark. Food aid and goods, as in other totalitarian regimes, tend to go to the elite, including Kim."
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