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...North. Washington weighed whether to supplement its 34,830 troops in South Korea and beef up their equipment. All the military talk sparked fears that the yearlong diplomatic campaign to haul Pyongyang back inside the safeguards of the nonproliferation treaty had collapsed. Given the touchy unpredictability of the Kim Il Sung regime, Seoul and Washington were worried that even small military signals could escalate toward a catastrophic...
...South Korea, the fine gradations of Northern propaganda were lost in a wave of pessimism about the chances of finding a peaceful accommodation with a country still preaching war. The civilian government of President Kim Young Sam came to power believing its military predecessors had manufactured tensions with the North to prop up their own misrule. Kim's ministers spoke in rosy tones about how they would vanquish ideology and unite the two countries. Now, says a Seoul official, "the romantic view is gone." Kim has shelved plans to encourage investment in the North, toughened the South's military stance...
...West is now waiting to see whether Pyongyang backs down. Some analysts are sure the end of the diplomatic road has already been reached. They argue that the regime and especially its unproved heir apparent, Kim Jong Il, view an atomic program as the trump card of their credibility and will not forgo it for anything. Other experts think Pyongyang might eventually give up its nuclear dream, but only in exchange for massive economic aid, a guarantee of Western support for Kim Jong Il's succession and a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the South -- concessions neither Seoul nor Washington...
...Kim: There is a saying in Korea that only clean upstreams make clean downstreams. The President should take the initiative in creating a clean society. I pledged not to accept one dollar in political donations from outside, and by doing so, I am assured support from the people. We also made high-ranking officials disclose their personal wealth. You can't have something and hide it anymore, which is a kind of revolution in Korea...
...Kim: Only two or three days after my inauguration, I started to reorganize the military radically. All those officials who participated in past coups d'etat were replaced. Military morale is high at the moment because there is a feeling that if you don't intervene in politics you can be promoted according to normal military procedures. It is a kind of renaissance of the Korean military: they are comfortably back in the barracks...