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...easy to dismiss Ebon Y. Lee’s recent column, a call to “Boycott South Korea?? (Column, Jan. 17), as an embarrassingly uninformed and needlessly inflammatory reaction to allegations of anti-Americanism in South Korea. But the fact that such allegations are coming from mainstream U.S. media is worrying. The recent candlelight vigils in Seoul for the two teenage girls accidentally killed by U.S. armored vehicles are interpreted as proof that the South Korean population is anti-American. Sure, the protests have allowed some South Koreans to vent anti-American feelings left over from...
...world is used to North Korea??s lunacy. We have heard enough of its pompous threats and bizarre ways to determine with great confidence that the North is an economic and psychological basket case. Its neighbor South Korea, on the other hand, has been as sensible as the North is senseless, embracing capitalism and democracy, technology and internationalism, all underwritten by a security guarantee courtesy of the United States. So it is easily the second most disturbing part of the current North Korea crisis, after the prospect of a growing nuclear arsenal in the hands of the world?...
...Americans we are no longer surprised by gross ingratitude from countries our soldiers have died to defend. The past, after all, is the past. Still, South Korea??s brand of anti-Americanism is beyond the pale. In a Gallup poll taken in December, more South Koreans expressed a positive view of North Korea, a country that sends children to its version of a gulag, than of the United States. The reason is that young South Koreans overwhelmingly blame President Bush for North Korea??s belligerence. Against this nonsense, I should note that North Korea resumed...
...polls and interviews conducted by news agencies, young South Koreans repeat again and again that they are not so worried about a North Korean nuclear bomb, because they don’t think North Korea would ever kill other Koreans. Such an attitude reveals volumes about South Korea??s education system, which can’t seem to teach the lessons of the Korean War and its aftermath: millions of Koreans killed in combat, millions more dead in the North from unnecessary famine and inhuman conditions in concentration camps, not to mention the Cold War litany of bombings...
This goal cannot be accomplished without the cooperation of China, North Korea??s most significant ally both ideologically and economically. During his recent visit to Crawford, Texas, Chinese President Jiang Zemin asserted that he hopes to see a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons and that he will aid the Bush administration in exerting pressure on North Korea to forego its nuclear development project. Despite these positive statements, it remains to be seen whether, after the Nov. 8 Party Congress during which it is expected that Jiang will step down, China will continue to pursue the issue...