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...perceived to be too closely aligned with the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush. The U.S. is expected to eventually apply to North Korea the same heavy pressure it used to force Iraq to accept United Nations weapons inspectors. America has already cut off Kim Jong Il's oil shipments, and last week the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring agency adopted a resolution urging Kim to abandon his weapons program and allow inspectors in. If the North does not respond by March, the matter could be taken up by the U.N. Security Council...
...Koreans call "money politics" has seen two of his three sons convicted of corruption in the past six months. In the eyes of average Koreans, Kim might as well have taken the bribes himself. Kim spent much of his presidency trying to coax North Korea's reclusive Kim Jong Il out of his lair. His unprecedented trip to Pyongyang in June 2000 lifted the hopes of millions of Koreans, won him the Nobel Peace Prize, and looked as if it would be his greatest legacy. But in the end, even the President's nordpolitik came to seem flawed. North Korea...
...Chang is doing what most candidates do when they slip behind in the polls: he's changing his message. During a televised question-and-answer session with college students last week, the hawkish conservative told the audience he is "ready to meet" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation. That's an unexpected disclosure from a politician who has been advocating that his countrymen take a tough stand against the nuclear ambitions of their northern neighbor. Lee isn't going soft on North Korea. "It's a show," says Lee Tae Jun, author...
...Professor Hahm Sung Deuk, a political expert at Korea University, says Kim Jong Il, by demonstrating once again how unpredictable and creepy his regime is, may have given Lee a boost with voters, helping to validate his view of the Sunshine Policy as naive appeasement. Certainly the hard-line stance resonates with older citizens, who still remember the horrors of the Korean...
North Korea shocked the world last month when the secretive Stalinist state admitted it was running a nuclear weapons program. Since then, the question on everyone's mind has been: do they already have the Bomb? North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is keeping the world guessing. In a Nov. 17 broadcast, Radio Pyongyang said: "We have come to have powerful military counter-measures, including nuclear weapons." Two days later, the commentary was rebroadcast twice, but the phrase "come to have" was replaced by "entitled to have" nuclear arms...