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...Agency chief Kim Chae Gyu, right, assassinates South Korean President Park Chung Hee and the chief of the Presidential Security Force, Cha Chi Chol...
...North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter," says an Administration official. The result? "Roh is conflicted," says Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University. "He has no choice but to take a harder line if he wants to retain any shred of credibility...
...because of automatic bids to the league champions of the CHA and MAAC—leagues whose teams do not typically challenge for at-large berths—the Crimson would have to move up to at least No. 14 to make the tournament as an at-large selection...
...South Korea's new assertiveness?and the wave of sometimes violent anti-American street protests that go along with it?represents "a wake up call for the Bush Administration," says Victor Cha, an expert on the military alliance between Seoul and Washington at Georgetown University. "Something is really wrong." What's wrong is the allies' increasingly divergent diplomatic strategies over the question of North Korea. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in the South to deter the North Korean army from swarming over the 38th parallel and into Seoul, which is only about 64 kilometers from the border...
...moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China will support North Korea whatever it does is over now," says Victor Cha, an Asia specialist at Georgetown University. Adds Kenneth Lieberthal, a University of Michigan professor who served as special assistant to President Bill Clinton and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000: "It's quite clear that the level of exasperation is high. They...