Hillary Clinton visits Seoul as Korean crisis mounts

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in South Korea after the North cut ties after being blamed for sinking a Southern warship. Mrs Clinton, at the end of a week-long tour of Asia, met Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and was also due to see President Lee Myung-bak. North Korea said it was severing all ties and banning South Korean ships and planes from its territory. South Korea announced earlier it was suspending trade links with the North.
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