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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...
...court annihilation by using a nuclear device. "He is very knowledgeable about what goes on in the international scene," South Korean President Kim Dae Jung recently told TIME. And yet Kim apparently is convinced that he will someday go to war with the U.S. According to Kim Hyun Shik, a former professor at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the North Korean leader watched the Gulf War closely and even ordered a film produced that analyzed the weak points of the U.S. military. The conclusion: Iraq lost because it lacked the will to attack U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia...
...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...
...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...
...million voters who elected liberal lawyer Roh Moo Hyun as South Korea's new President last week, is concerned about homeland security. He ought to be. North Korea is trying to arm itself with nuclear missiles and seems bent on forcing a showdown with the U.S., which wants to strip the North of its weapons of mass destruction and appears willing to risk war to do so. But during a noisy Seoul street party celebrating Roh's cliff-hanger Dec. 19 victory, Kim, a 26-year-old publishing company employee, says he's not worried about the North...