South Korean Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo says North Korea has stepped back from a strident demand it made earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

I think so. But video phone has been very hard to achieve. It's either been to be expensive, or too crowded, or can we use the internet to finally introduce video phone and this is different from video on-demand.

我也这么认为，但视频电话要成功很困难,它要么很贵，要么很拥堵，或者我们是否可以使用互联网引入视频电话,这与随需视频是不同的。

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And the sun has to trundle across the sky, and they're pretty unhappy about this and they want relief from working And laboring at their assigned stations and so Marduk accedes to this demand.

太阳则必须滚过天际，他们对此不快，他们也想在工作之余休息,在他们自己的居所里活动,于是，Marduk同意了这个请求。

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They were expecting a much stronger intervention by Obama last year,in 2009, when Obama stepped back from his demand for a complete settlement freeze and this led Palestinians to feel betrayed and abandoned."

VOA: standard.2010.05.03