Word: hyun
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...signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman for U.S. forces in South Korea: "Everything we are doing is to enhance the alliance, not diminish it." With anti-American sentiment still strong in South Korea, the U.S. decision might seem like a boon to President Roh Moo Hyun; in his younger days, he supported the withdrawal of American troops. No danger of that here: the move comes with a $11 billion investment to bolster U.S. defenses on the peninsula...
...feel incompetent as President and a sense of crisis that I will not be able to perform my presidential duties." Roh Moo Hyun, South Korean President, three months into his term...
...apart from our national agenda, we also built a close personal friendship." Roh Moo Hyun, South Korea's President, after meeting U.S. President George W. Bush to discuss the North Korea crisis...
South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will make his first trip to America next week. It's not likely to be a happy introduction to the joys of Stateside travel. The highlight of his itinerary is a summit with President George W. Bush, during which they must try to hammer out a mutually agreeable strategy for defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. Although Roh and Bush may get along fine personally?both are plainspoken men who quickly get to the point?they are poles apart on how to convince North Korea to scrap its nuclear program...
...embarrassing rerun of former President Kim Dae Jung's White House misadventure in 2001. That summit went off the rails when Bush aired his long-standing doubts about negotiating with the North. "If you think President Bush is suddenly going to change his position because of Roh Moo Hyun?that's just not going to happen," says a Bush Administration official...