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...tell TIME that the Chinese government is reassessing its past defense of North Korea. In October, for example, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrote a memo damning North Korea's "diplomatic adventurism." Other senior Chinese officials are known to have discussed cutting energy and food aid to Kim Jong-Il's regime...
...Elsewhere in Asia, anti-U.S. sentiment can even outweigh what seem to be more pressing issues. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in South Korea to guard against an assault by the dangerous dictator to the north, Kim Jong Il. A month ago, Kim admitted he had an atomic bomb program. Last week, he cranked up a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium. And what was the reaction on the streets of Seoul? There was furious protest?but it was directed at the U.S. embassy after the acquittal of two U.S. servicemen for the accidental killing...
...Security Council, China shares a border with North Korea and has a long history of propping up the country's bankrupt regime. In 1950, Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River and fought the U.S. to a stalemate, ending the Korean War and rescuing Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, from defeat. Today the mainland is North Korea's biggest benefactor, providing an estimated 40% of immediate food needs and 90% of its oil, according to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based research institute. Beijing has usually backed the North on the diplomatic front...
...President George W. Bush could not have anticipated just how far the Stalinist state would go to earn the label. While Bush's foreign policy team tries to stay focused on stripping Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction it may possess, the North's leader Kim Jong Il seems bent on demonstrating that his own regime is just as menacing. At least Saddam Hussein claims to harbor no biological, chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords. And last week, in an apparent reaction to the high-seas interdiction...
...growing belief that the country no longer needs 37,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea as a deterrent to invasion by the North. Roh has taken just such a position in the past. But Lee?instead of scoring political points by emphasizing just how dangerous Kim Jong Il remains?is forced to play the moderate. The cold warriors in his party can only hope that toning down the rhetoric will widen Lee's appeal and win him the election. Only then will they be able to test the theory that the North Korean question can be answered...