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On the Asian side of the Pacific Ocean, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her first diplomatic trip. ABC's Martha Raddatz (embargoed link) focused on the "full-fledged charm offensive" component in Jakarta as the Secretary appeared on Awesome, a youth show on Indonesian music TV. "You see all these people?" the tone-deaf Madame Secretary joked when she was asked for a tune. "If I start to sing, they will leave." From Seoul, NBC's Andrea Mitchell chose the hard news angle. Rodham Clinton "abandoned the usual diplomatic niceties in unusually blunt talk," worried about a crisis in North Korea, where the 67-year-old dictator Kim Jong Il may have suffered a stroke. "Last week Kim replaced his Defense Minister," Mitchell reported, "and now word that Kim's youngest son, in his mid twenties, would likely succeed his father."
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