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...fruitless diplomacy, the U.S. and its allies are preparing a high-seas quarantine to try to ensure that North Korea's nuclear knowledge doesn't leach beyond its borders. While the details remain to be worked out, U.S. President Barack Obama - after meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak in Washington on June 16 - indicated that the battle to contain North Korea's atomic arsenal is headed offshore. "This is not simply a U.S. policy - this is an international policy," Obama said of the evolving plan to search North Korean vessels suspected of ferrying arms or nuclear components. "This...
Even now Roh remains a thorn in the side of his opponents. His devoted supporters blame the conservative administration of President Lee Myung Bak for driving Roh to his death. Prosecutors were investigating allegations of corruption against Roh (which he denied). For a man who professed to practice "clean" politics, the embarrassment was apparently too much to bear...
...escalated. In late May, Pyongyang earned global condemnation by undertaking a second nuclear test, and now Kim Jong Il may be preparing another test of a long-range missile. Seoul's response to Pyongyang's actions has been unusually tough. After the nuclear test, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed to join a U.S.-led effort to crack down on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea called Lee's decision tantamount to a declaration of war. "Many [South Koreans] now feel that the North has taken it too far," says Yoo Ho Yeol, a professor...
...called Sunshine Policy run by Roh Moo Hyun, the former South Korean President who committed suicide in May. Pyongyang revoked all the contracts at Gaesong last month and has continued to hold the businessman, apparently as a way to express its anger at current South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's harder line toward the North...
That effort will now at least go into abeyance, if only because Pyongyang clearly has no interest in accepting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's invitation, issued this week, to return to the six-party talks. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak in Seoul flatly told President Obama earlier this week not to go back to simply trying to bribe the North out of its nuclear program. Japan is more or less in the same place. China, which could inflict considerable economic pain on Pyongyang by cutting off trade and fuel shipments, now must decide whether...