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• South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted Wi Sung-lac, the country's top nuclear negotiator, as saying that the country is working on responses to a rocket launch. —  AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
• South Korea on Monday named career diplomat Wi Sung-lac, a former head of the Foreign Ministry's North American affairs bureau, as its new top nuclear envoy.
• Many other forms are of value to man by producing material of commercial value such as lac, shellack, dyes, medicines, etc. Of all the beneficial insects those which are of greatest value to man are the parasites and similar forms which help to keep in check many of the severest pests of the farm. —  An Elementary Study of Insects
• Its basis is resin lac, a compound resinous substance exuded from an East India scale insect (_Carteria lacca_) found mostly in the province of Assam. —  Handwork in Wood
• The stick-lac is collected by the Gonds and Korkus and sold to the Lakheras; they clear it of wood as far as possible and then place the incrusted twigs and bark in long cotton bags and heat them before a fire, squeezing out the gum, which is spread out on flat plates so as to congeal into the shape of a pancake. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala

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