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SEOUL, South Korea — Freighters carrying aid shipments of rice and instant noodles left for North Korea on Monday, the first food aid the South Korean government has sent to the North since President Lee Myung-bak was elected here in early 2008. Analysts saw the Monday shipments as the result of diplomatic overtures made by the North, prompted by new desperation over economic conditions which have been made worse by a broad range of international sanctions.
