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...stage-managed and air-brushed as meetings between world leaders have become, the public rarely sees the actual script. So President Bush watched in amusement on Thursday as an aide to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun walked in front of live television cameras and plunked a sheet of vertically folded paper on the podium as Roh (a Korean name that is pronounced "No," a boon to nay-saying anti-government protesters) gave a long and rambling answer at the two leaders' news conference in the ancient Korean capital of Gyeongju. Bush staffers around the room eyed each other merrily...
...American contingent's three days in South Korea, centered around an annual Asia-Pacific economic summit, are underscoring differences between the allies, at a time when Bush is anxious to portray unity in confronting Roh's nuclear neighbor, North Korea. Roh, given a choice between dissembling or dissing Bush when asked if his country's approach of giving assistance to North Korea puts him at odds with the United States, replied, "Next," and motioned for a question from KBS [a Korean broadcasting network]." Quizzed about the same issue aboard Air Force One on the way to South Korea, Bush national...
...minute news conference, despite having a tight format of opening statements and then two questions from each country's press corps, was filled with surreal moments. Roh went off on a tangent in which he propounded an unconventional reading of American Civil War history in explaining his own country's ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion...
...help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something of a breakthrough in September, when Pyongyang seemed...
...been stingier with the North of late. Seoul shipped 1.2 million tons of rice to Pyongyang over the last three years, plus another 300,000 tons of corn through the WFP. This year, it hasn't sent anything. South Korean opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong last week accused Roh's government of using food aid as a political tool. "Do we really want a nuclear-free Korea without the Kim Jong Il regime at the cost of millions of dead?" Won asked. "North Korea is always an ethical quagmire," says Peter Beck, head of the International Crisis Group in Seoul...