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Hello. Today what's in a scoop? We hear from the correspondent who maintained there was no merit at all in being first if your story was a load of old rubbish.

Another reporter is accused of being a British imperialist and of being boring. We're in the home of country music asking if Americans really

can contemplate going back to work on the factory floor and in Ethiopia where there's a surprising show of affection at the dinner table.

North Korea's reacted angrily to a conference which took place in Washington on Tuesday, which

listed what were termed widespread human rights abuses.

The regime in Pyongyang has repeatedly said America uses the human rights issue as a pretext

to overthrow it. Recently, it the US look instead at what it calls

the CIA's torture crimes. The State Department point out the event was privately organized

and nothing to do with them.

But this latest controversy comes in the run-up to a traditionally tense time of year in relations

on the Korean Peninsula.

At the end of February and beginning of March, about 200,000 South Korean and American troops

hold huge maneuvers involving air, sea and land forces.

Steve Evans is in Seoul where he says a debate's underway about the most effective way

of dealing with threats from the north. It's not often that I get called a British

imperialist by people holding a press conference. It's not the way I think

of myself and it's not usual for the subject of a news event to turn on one of the reporters

at that news event. But it did happen the other day. A group of

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