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Unlike his predecessor, Roh Moo Hyun, Lee also promised to pursue the issue of South Korean citizens kidnapped by the North, and would vote for a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution this week to look into Pyongyang's human rights abuses. Sohn Kwang Joo, an editor at the Daily NK, an online newspaper focusing on North Korea, is confident Lee will continue to press the North, but adds, "Kim Jong Il will react negatively...
...Even if he wins support for the canal, other Lee initiatives could bog down. South Korea's notoriously prickly labor unions are vehemently against ratification of a free-trade agreement with the U.S. signed last year; Lee, who unlike his predecessor Roh Moo Hyun is unabashedly pro-America, says the agreement would increase trade. He also supports ongoing efforts to privatize the energy sector and railroads, which union members have vowed to fight. "We don't agree with the policies of the new government," says Lee Chang Geun, the international executive director of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions...
...Indeed, when Lee is inaugurated next month, he will assume office at a crucial time for the Korean peninsula. In October, outgoing South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun met in Pyongyang with Kim Jong Il, marking just the second inter-Korean summit ever. The North may also be on the brink of a historic peace agreement with the U.S. - one that President George W. Bush, in his last year in office, appears to want desperately in order to shore up his controversial foreign-policy legacy. A deal between Washington and Pyongyang - predicated on the North verifiably giving up its nuclear...
...saying their candidate had "exaggerated" his involvement with the company in the video, and reiterated that Lee did not found BBK. But despite renewed questions over his possible involvement in the stock scandal, most observers believe a Lee victory is still all but certain. With outgoing President Roh Moo Hyun deeply unpopular because of his perceived failures to create more job opportunities or to combat rising housing prices, Korea's electorate seems more eager for a leader who can revive the economy than one with a pristine track record...
...election, Lee, 66, now appears to be the only candidate capable of securing a majority. The former Hyundai Engineering and Construction CEO has an approval rating of about 40% in public opinion polls, compared with 18% for Lee Hoi Chang and 15% for Chung. President Roh Moo Hyun, whose five-year term is ending, cannot run for a second term...