| [Kyodo: Korea] North Korea has dismissed South Korean President Lee Myung Bak"s proposal called the ""grand bargain"" for addressing Pyongyang"s nuclear ambitions as ""ridiculous,"" the official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday. Lee and his advisers ""are seriously mistaken if they calculate the DPRK would accept the ridiculous "proposal" for "the normalization of relations" with someone and for sort of "economic aid","" KCNA said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People"s Republic of Korea. |