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...account of the Korean crisis veered away from examining the Bush Administration's hostile attitude toward North Korea [World, Jan. 13]. Why did Bush feel he had to go beyond his already lunatic "axis of evil" remarks to say how much he personally disliked North Korean leader Kim Jong Il? No wonder the North Koreans feel that they need to have nuclear weapons. Their pride is hurt, and they're scared. The South Koreans are scared too. Seoul, a bustling city of 10.6 million, lies only 30 miles from the Demilitarized Zone. Jack Cooper Van Nuys, Calif...
...Jong Il gives the U.S. and other free countries the option that armed thugs have been offering their victims for centuries: your money or your life. Can there be any clearer indication of North Korea's intentions in developing its military and nuclear capacity or of what we must do to prevent this from happening? Evan Madianos Wayne...
South Korea's leaders insist that the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula can be defused by maintaining peaceful dialogue with North Korea's erratic dictator Kim Jong Il. But black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared...
...More startling, perhaps, a government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections...
...Korea are traditional allies. Let’s hope that the recent strains turn out to be no more than minor bumps in the maturing of the partnership in the 21st century. Lee’s anti-South Korea ranting certainly does not help anyone (except possibly Kim Jong Il) and only helps to perpetuate the incorrect stereotype that the Americans are rude and arrogant...