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...South Korean government does not agree with some in the United States who appear to want to take issue with North Korea's regime, apply pressure, and who occasionally wish for its collapse." ROH MOO HYUN, President of South Korea, expressing concern over Washington's confrontational policy towards North Korea; Seoul favors rapprochement with its neighbor...
...ties to the U.S.?that is straining relations within Asia to a breaking point. The leaders of South Korea and China refused to have formal bilateral meetings with Koizumi at December's East Asian summit in Kuala Lumpur. At the APEC summit in November, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi the visits to Yasukuni were "totally unacceptable." Tang Jiaxuan, a Chinese State Council member in charge of diplomacy, said that the issue has made Sino-Japanese relations "the most difficult" since the two nations normalized diplomatic ties in 1972. And Wang Yi, China's ambassador to Japan...
...stage-managed and air-brushed as meetings between world leaders have become, the public rarely sees the actual script. So President Bush watched in amusement on Thursday as an aide to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun walked in front of live television cameras and plunked a sheet of vertically folded paper on the podium as Roh (a Korean name that is pronounced "No," a boon to nay-saying anti-government protesters) gave a long and rambling answer at the two leaders' news conference in the ancient Korean capital of Gyeongju. Bush staffers around the room eyed each other merrily...
...help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something of a breakthrough in September, when Pyongyang seemed...
...North would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan told an ABC television-news crew in Pyongyang that the country was producing more nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, a meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and U.S. President George W. Bush, despite declarations of unity, ended with the two allies unable to agree, as usual, whether to coax North Korean despot Kim Jong Il with aid and trade or hammer him with tougher economic sanctions...