North Korea shoots monetary chief
Ben Bernanke is lucky

North Korea shoots unpopular monetary official

American politics
Lexington's notebook

AMERICA'S central bank boss takes a lot of flak for his supposed role in failing to prevent the recession. North Korea's top monetary man takes real bullets.

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