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...swooning world economy has not helped. Neither has the U.S. President. Bush was skeptical about Kim's policy of reconciliation with the North when the South Korean leader visited Washington earlier this year. But many Koreans think Kim has brought his troubles on himself. Traits that helped him survive when he was fighting Korea's military governments--unshakable self-confidence, an unwillingness to compromise--have turned into liabilities. Even supporters say his authoritarian style has contributed to his problems. Kim did not try hard enough to sell his North Korea policy and never sat down with Lee Hoi Chang...
...When Kim became President in 1998, expectations were high. As Korea's best-known pro-democracy activist, he had been jailed, beaten and nearly executed by Korea's military strongmen. After finally making it to the Blue House, he wasted no time in launching a peace offensive and flying to Pyongyang in June 2000 for a historic summit. At the awards ceremony in Oslo last October, the chairman of the Nobel committee compared Kim to Mandela and Gandhi...
...nationalistic tone of Koizumi's administration, his visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
Last fall, a group of Korean religious leaders paid Kim Dae Jung a visit at the presidential Blue House. It should have been a festive occasion. The South Korean President had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his push to pry open North Korea seemed to be making progress. In a closed-door session, the visitors sipped orange juice and chatted amiably. Then they delivered some sobering advice. They warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with the North. Sit down with the opposition, they urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal...
...Kim ignored the advice, and is paying the price. He has long staked his presidency on two issues: economic reform and improving relations with the North. Both issues are now killing him politically. Last week the legislature voted to oust Kim's closest aide, Unification Minister Lim Dong Won, after he allowed a left-wing delegation to travel to the North, where they disobeyed government orders not to participate in pro-Pyongyang propaganda events. Defecting to the opposition, junior coalition partner Kim Jong Pil engineered the no-confidence vote, destroying the ruling alliance. Kim quickly replaced five ministers, but with...