Word: koreans
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...protecting Taiwan would depend 'on the circumstances' invites trouble. We should ignore China's claims to exceptionalism, stop psychoanalyzing the place, stop worrying that we might say something that offends them and state our interests clearly." Nothing emboldens tyrants more than mixed signals, Forbes said. "Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush didn't say 'No' straight...
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean officials have refused new offers of food aid for their flood-damaged country, saying they are "disappointed" by the response to their appeal. Even as he praised U.S. efforts, Pak Dok Hun, a North Korean spokesman in Geneva, said that North Korea decided not to request more aid even though the country is gripped by food shortages, and struggling to repair an estimated $15 billion in flood damage. Hun accused "hostile elements" (translation: South Korea) of obstructing aid from the United States and other nations. According to the U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs, only...
Former South Korean Presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo were already in jail on corruption charges; last week the two ex-generals were indicted for treason in connection with the 1980 "Kwangju massacre," in which hundreds of demonstrators were killed. They could face the death penalty...
...Pentagon said four U.S. soldiers who deserted their units in South Korea in the early 1960s are believed to be living in North Korea. One of the men was identified in a photo published by a South Korean newspaper last week as having appeared in a North Korean propaganda film, Nameless Heroes...
...intends to reduce the concentration of troops on Okinawa, this crime will probably accelerate that process," reports defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "I do not believe, however, that there will be a substantial removal of troops from Japan. They are needed as a bulwark against the threat of a North Korean attack. If there is a change in policy, it will have to come from the Japanese government, and the last time their temperature was checked, they wanted to stay with the status...