Word: lacunae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seoul was actually mounting a show of strength to rally domestic political sentiment. Moreover, South Korea's Defense Department could not produce any recordings of the loudspeaker announcements, which apparently had not been made in areas of the DMZ patrolled by U.S. troops. A government spokesman explained this lacuna by claiming that official policy is "not to disclose how any intelligence matter was obtained." Washington, however, flatly dismisses the possibility that South Korea was behind any fabrication. If Seoul had been playing disinformation games, moreover, it got badly burned. The government's clumsy handling of the loudspeaker announcements...