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Kenneth Clarke, the BAT official and U.K. Tory leader who knew about the company’s factory in North Korea, came in a miserable fourth in the race to lead his party, which lost its political relevance when Margaret Thatcher stood down. I can’t say to what extent the N. Korea relevations played a part, but it’s interesting how much traction the story got in the British press, which has done a much better job covering North Korean human rights than the U.S. press.