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...Kang and millions of her fellow North Koreans are the overlooked victims of the Korean peninsula's nuclear crisis. It has been nearly one year since North Korea walked out of the six-party talks, the multilateral forum that was created to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons ambition. Last week, there was another round of unproductive exchanges: after a meeting with North Korean officials in New York, the U.S. State Department announced that the North would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister...
...anyone in South Korea is living in the shadow of the North Korean Bomb, it is the people of Ilsan, a town of 500,000 situated north of Seoul just a few kilometers from the gash of barbed wire and land mines that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. From a local lookout point, the town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like...
...from another planet (as the International Crisis Group put it), but they are brothers just the same, impoverished relations deserving help, not international censure and isolation. Many South Koreans?including some government officials?are more worried that Washington could respond to a Pyongyang provocation with military action, plunging the peninsula into war. From South Korea's perspective, "they have two black boxes to deal with?the North Koreans and the U.S. government," said a Seoul-based Western diplomat. Which box is blacker? According to a poll published last week by the Munhwa Ilbo daily and the Korea Society Opinion Institute...
...These results reflect the rise of a more nationalistic generation of South Koreans who are frustrated with America's dominant role in the fate of the peninsula. Younger citizens want their leaders to carve out a new, more independent position?one that envisions the eventual, peaceful reunification of the two countries. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, elected in 2002 thanks to strong support from younger voters, said in a speech in Los Angeles last year that he could understand why North Korea might feel it needs nuclear weapons as "a deterrant for defending itself from external agression." (Roh still...
...attack us with nukes?we're the same race." Says Lee Do Hwan, another employee of Ilsan's Lotte department store: "I agree with North Korea's position on the Bomb. They can use it for their defense. It is the U.S. that's caused the crisis in the peninsula...