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Cook book gets Koreans in hot water
Wed Sep 11, 6:56 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - They didn't reveal any top secret recipes, but two junior aides to South Korean President Kim Dae-jung have been sacked after publishing a book entitled "What do people eat at the Blue House?"
The low-ranking staffers, a nutritionist and a secretary for civil affairs, were dismissed for divulging security secrets in their book about daily life in South Korea's ornate blue-tiled presidential mansion, Kim's spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
"This government cooperates to the fullest extent possible every time there is a media request to cover aspects of the president's life or the Blue House which citizens are curious about," presidential spokeswoman Park Sun-sook told reporters.
"Every government in the world treats as important secrets select information about its highest leaders," she told a news conference.
Without repeating what was divulged, Park said the book contained a number of secrets of various degrees of classification on security facilities and procedures at the Blue House, where the president both lives and works.
She said the book also contained "not a few accounts of past presidents' eating habits, favourite foods and dining information about foreign guests".
The health of the 77-year-old Kim had been a subject of intense speculation after a recent bout of pneumonia
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