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South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will make his first trip to America next week. It's not likely to be a happy introduction to the joys of Stateside travel. The highlight of his itinerary is a summit with President George W. Bush, during which they must try to hammer out a mutually agreeable strategy for defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. Although Roh and Bush may get along fine personally?both are plainspoken men who quickly get to the point?they are poles apart on how to convince North Korea to scrap its nuclear program...
...nonessential surgery has been postponed in Hong Kong and Toronto, so that the overburdened health-care systems can handle the costly and time-consuming treatment of SARS victims. Panic is erupting in usually placid Canada, where Chinese restaurateurs are now having to convince nervous patrons that eating moo shu pork doesn't cause the disease and local radio shows are fielding calls asking whether Caucasians are immune to the virus. (Of course...
...Russia and South Korea?have been urging the U.S. to abandon its hard-line policy and hold direct talks with Pyongyang. The Bush Administration's frustration that it can't get support from allies only grew last week when a high-level delegation from South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun visited Washington. At one meeting with top U.S. experts on Korea, Yun Young Gwan, a Roh advisor on foreign affairs, stunned his audience by announcing Seoul would rather see North Korea with nukes than see it collapse. Appalled, one participant described the South Korean delegation as "naive, sentimental, illogical...
...enforcing their WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program," claims opposition Grand National Party lawmaker Eom Ho-sung. Convinced the financial gambit was a collaboration between the National Intelligence Service, the Blue House and the Hyundai Corporation, the party is calling for an independent inquiry. Even President-elect Roh Moo Hyun, who promised in his campaign to keep the "Sunshine Policy" alive, has voiced his support for further investigation. Eager to distance himself from his predecessor, Roh said he would have no qualms about revealing the full truth of the funding after his inauguration...
...decision to withdraw from the nonproliferation pact, an accord that blocked it from developing nukes. But Seoul said that it would push ahead with efforts to end the crisis peacefully, announcing that it would send high-level envoys to Pyongyang this week. South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-hyun said he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il after taking office next month. Other initiatives were still live as well, including a Russian proposal that would give North Korea a security guarantee and aid in exchange for abandoning its nuclear program. The U.S. still...