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...government of President Kim Dae Jung gets pretty good marks on the progress so far. But bureaucrats at the Finance Ministry are still reluctant to let big companies go bust (although the collapse of the Hyundai group and Daewoo show you can't be too big to fail anymore). The government also must push ahead with the sale of state-run banks and corporations. An ongoing strike over the privatization of the Korea Electric Power Co. shows how tough that will be, especially with local elections in June and a presidential vote at the end of the year...
...George W. Bush kill chances for peace when he condemned North Korea as evil? That's what everyone wanted to know from South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung last week as President Bush stopped in Seoul on his three-city tour of Asia. Kim stayed silent when asked a question along these lines at a press conference. American officials were puzzled by the non-answer, but a senior South Korean official was not. "Kim Dae-Jung and President Bush do not need glasses," the official told me. "They both see North Korea clearly, but president Kim leaves his tongue...
Last fall three religious leaders close to Kim Dae Jung visited him at the presidential Blue House. It should have been a festive occasion. The South Korean President had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his push to pry open Communist North Korea seemed to be working. In a private session, the visitors warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with North Korea. Sit down with the opposition leaders, they urged, and forge a national consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party...
...tone of Koizumi's administration, his visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
Last fall, a group of Korean religious leaders paid Kim Dae Jung a visit at the presidential Blue House. It should have been a festive occasion. The South Korean President had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his push to pry open North Korea seemed to be making progress. In a closed-door session, the visitors sipped orange juice and chatted amiably. Then they delivered some sobering advice. They warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with the North. Sit down with the opposition, they urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal...