"You can't proceed under business as normal when there's no clear direction out there, " he said.

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No element of fear, hatred or such that you might expect, but purely the curiosity as to how North Korea will proceed and perhaps any impeding affects that may move down to and through to the South.

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"Like the majority of members of the synod, and the majority of the members of the Church of England, I am very firmly of the view that we need to proceed as speedily as we can to resolve this question because I, like most of you, long to see women bishops in the Church of England, " he said.

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