Word: hyun
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...appointment of a special envoy to press the human-rights issue. President George W. Bush, who in 2002 famously said he "loathes" North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, is eager to raise the profile of human rights in North Korea. But to date, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has been unwilling to bring up the matter. His government fears that doing so could hurt Seoul's slowly improving relationship with Pyongyang-and conceivably divert attention from resolving the issue of the North's nuclear program...
...Weighing the Risks South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun may have stood firm with plans to dispatch 3,000 Korean soldiers to Iraq, but one of his citizens was murdered after being taken hostage there. From this example, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo learned a lesson [Aug. 9]. Her decision to pull out our peacekeepers from Iraq in order to save a kidnapped Philippine truck driver may have been against the wishes and plans of Washington and other allies, but her actions saved a life. Dionne Lee Esteban Caytiles Quezon City, the Philippines...
...during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula; in Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
...familiar dilemma. Similar demands were made of Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in April when three Japanese civilians were kidnapped in Iraq, but he refused to withdraw his 550 soldiers as their captors insisted (the hostages were later freed). Likewise, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun last month would not submit to terrorists' demands that he cancel plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq; as a result, a South Korean contractor who had been kidnapped in Iraq was beheaded...
Since the beheading of Korean interpreter Kim Sun Il in Iraq last week, Koreans have been struggling to comprehend the brutal act?and wondering whom to blame. Some of the thousands attending nightly candlelight vigils have pointed fingers at the United States; others denounced South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun; a few directed their anger at South Korea's small Muslim community, with one man even barging into a mosque in Seoul wielding a knife...