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...difficult to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, but it is not impossible.' LEE MYUNG BAK, South Korean President, dismissing assertions that the U.S. and South Korea have softened demands for North Korea to fully declare all its nuclear activities...
...difficult to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, but it is not impossible.' LEE MYUNG-BAK, South Korean President, dismissing assertions that the U.S. and South Korea have softened demands for North Korea to fully declare all its nuclear activities...
...Hill will need to turn up the heat on North Korea even more. His somewhat unlikely ally in pressuring Pyongyang is Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea. Lee, a conservative who says he wants closer ties with Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million...
...sanctions. Lee's foreign-policy outlook is much more closely aligned with that of the Bush Administration. Indeed, the two countries seem to be taking pains to present a united front. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in March stood shoulder to shoulder with Lee's Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan in Seoul while Yu said that "time and patience is running out" on Pyongyang's foot-dragging...
President Lee's government was not being cowed, however. His Foreign Minister, Yu Myung Hwan, in a meeting with Condoleezza Rice this week, said that Seoul was "running out of time and patience" with Pyongyang over the North Korean nuclear issue. On Wednesday, President Lee himself warned that he would speak out against human rights abuses in North Korea; an issue avoided by the past two liberal administrations, and would not expand ties with the country until it abandons its nuclear weapons program...