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...Regardless, South Korean politics seem poised for a sharp left turn. Many Uri Party members want more economic aid funneled to North Korea, which could increase friction between Seoul and Washington over how to deal with Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Seoul's plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June could also be in jeopardy. Officially, the Uri Party supported Roh's decision to send Korean troops. But the deployment could now come up for debate again. The Uri Party's parliamentary leader Kim Keun Tae says: "We have to examine carefully whether...
...Clarke, that it did not do all it could have to avert the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Amidst this brouhaha, an ominous portent of further and more deadly attacks upon American soil went virtually unnoticed. The North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il, through its mouthpiece Radio Pyongyang, explicitly rejected America’s demand for the “complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantling” of its nuclear weapons program. Now that the Kim regime has removed any doubts about its intentions to press forward with its nuclear program, we are confronted with the grave possibility that...
...intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price tag of at least $100 million, through the transfer of South Korean taxpayer money to the Dear Leader's bank accounts...
...winner in this tragedy. His name is Kim Jong Il. With South Korea in political turmoil, North Korea's degree of freedom in its nuclear confrontation with the Western world expands quite nicely. In the immediate future, the North need no longer worry about coordinated international efforts to press Pyongyang for nuclear compliance, because those efforts would inevitably require coordination with the now dysfunctional government in Seoul...
...road to that goal may prove excruciatingly long. The two main antagonists?North Korea and the U.S.?remain at an impasse. Pyongyang says it will freeze its nuclear program only if Washington drops its "hostile stance." Meanwhile, the U.S. demands "complete, verifiable and irreversible" dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program before it will discuss any thaw in bilateral relations. But time is on North Korea's side: while talks drag on, it can quietly continue developing nuclear weapons. Says Peter Hayes, a North Korea expert at the Nautilus Institute, a California think tank: "The longer we wait, the higher...