SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama is sitting down with South Korea's President Park Geun-hye, whose attention is unavoidably split between her economic agenda with Obama and the unfolding aftermath of a tragic ferry disaster. Obama was due at the Blue House, the South Korean equivalent of the White House, on Friday for a busy evening of meetings with Park, including a working dinner and a news conference. The visit is Obama's first to Seoul since Park became the key U.S. ally's first female president, but Park has been consumed for more than a week by the sunken ferry, a dark episode that keeps getting worse as...
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