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...next morning we head for an apartment that Kim keeps for his family, at least, that is, according a report in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo. It's in an exclusive waterfront development, but save for a sunflower image painted on its tile wall, "his" place looks identical to those around it. We ring the doorbell, but no one shows. A security guard gives us a dirty look, so we buzz off. Our options dwindling, we decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into...
...With no apparent unrest in the North, it seems more likely that Kim is trying to dial back his cult of personality, possibly to present himself as a more normal leader internationally. "He is confident in his power," says Kim Kwang In, a North Korea specialist at Seoul's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. "He doesn't need idolatry." But if this was a show of self-abnegation, it was a modest one. North Korea uses more than 1,000 flattering designations for its leader, including Guardian Deity of the Planet and Sun of the 21st Century. Meanwhile, Dear Leader was still...
...South Koreans that "terrorism must not achieve its goal." Washington, which needs all the support it can get in Iraq, praised Roh's tough-guy stance, relieved that for once he hadn't played to the anti-American sentiment of his young, left-leaning voter base. Even the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily, usually one of his harshest critics, praised Roh's "firm will." Says Lee Chung Hee, an expert on Korean politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul: "Roh showed he can be a quick and decisive leader even at the cost of losing support in the street...
...political reporter for the South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo, who is currently a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, stood...
...more than half of South Koreans, particularly younger voters, don't see the Stalinist North as a menace, according to a recent poll by Gallup and the South's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. They view the impoverished country as they might an aggressive panhandler who, through assistance and negotiation, can be coaxed into becoming a good citizen; and they see America's hard-line policy as a needless provocation of unpredictable dictator Kim Jong Il. "There is a totally different threat perception between South Koreans and Americans," says Balbina Hwang, a Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington...