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...this kind of attitude were confined to the streets, we could write it off as irritating but harmless rabble rousing. Unfortunately, President-elect Roh Moo-hyun owes his recent electoral victory to anti-American passions. Most infuriating was his offer to mediate between the United States and North Korea, as if the two sides were equally naughty schoolchildren and South Korea a neutral observer...
...Pyongyang definitively crosses the nuclear threshold, Japan and South Korea will be provoked to follow. The bigger headache for the U.S. has turned out to be its longtime ally the South Koreans, who have no interest in making life worse for their North Korean kin. The South's President-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, has irritated Washington by vowing to renew Seoul's policy of "sunshine" engagement with the North. Last week Roh publicly criticized the U.S. containment strategy. "I am skeptical it will make North Korea surrender," he said...
...door policy; teachers and students address one another by first name. The debate raging elsewhere over the proper fate of alternative-ed students was settled here long ago. "It's on a case-by-case basis, the way it should be," says Corella. Countywide, about 10% of the students elect to stay in the alternative setting until graduation. Corella reports that 40% of Mujeres grads attend junior college, and a few have even gone on to four-year universities...
...fact, South Korea's President-elect, Roh Moo Hyun, has made it clear the country will continue to pursue peaceful reunification with the North?another round of ongoing reunification talks are scheduled to be held this week. Simply put, the South does not perceive Kim Jong Il to be as dangerous or unreasonable as the U.S. does. In fact, many South Koreans view America as the aggressor?Bush's inclusion of North Korea in his "axis of evil" was tantamount to telling Kim Jong Il his days as dictator, like Saddam Hussein's, are numbered. That echoes North Korea...
...South Korean officials fear North Korea's withdrawal from the nuclear treaty will harden attitudes in Washington. "It won't [encourage] the American side to resume the dialogue," says a foreign-policy adviser to President-elect Roh. The North may even set an ominous precedent, demonstrating to other marginalized states like Iran that they can seek atomic weapons without much risk. "If you get this one wrong, it's hard to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again," says Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington. In this dangerous game of bluff and counterbluff, North Korea...