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...North would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan told an ABC television-news crew in Pyongyang that the country was producing more nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, a meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and U.S. President George W. Bush, despite declarations of unity, ended with the two allies unable to agree, as usual, whether to coax North Korean despot Kim Jong Il with aid and trade or hammer him with tougher economic sanctions...
Sounds ambitious, but the website is already extremely influential at home. After two schoolgirls were crushed to death in 2002 by a U.S. military vehicle, OhmyNews provided blanket coverage, triggering widespread demonstrations against the U.S. troop presence. As South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rode the surge of anti-U.S. sentiment to victory in the 2002 election, OhmyNews portrayed him as the voice of the younger generation. Roh gave his first exclusive interview as President to the online upstart...
...Roh's statement might seem startling to outsiders, but it's the consensus in places like Ilsan. Seoul was keenly aware of the threat from the North's Korean People's Army when the South created the town from scratch in the 1980s. Lying across one of the main invasion routes to Seoul, the area was the scene of frequent skirmishes during the Korean War. Planners carefully spaced Ilsan's new high-rises to slow any onslaught from enemy tanks and troops. In those days, the town's proximity to North Korea made it an unpopular place to live. Today...
...South Korea's opposition to the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 passed by the U.S. Congress. The law earmarks the spending of $24 million a year to improve human rights in the repressive country. But many South Koreans, including lawmakers in the Uri Party, which supports Roh, see the legislation as an attempt to destabilize North Korea?which happens to be exactly the way Pyongyang reads the law. Seoul's decision in April to abstain from a vote on the North's human-rights record at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva didn't help, either...
...There is one event that could bring the North Korea policies of Seoul and Washington into closer alignment: a nuclear test by the North. Roh was livid after Pyongyang declared it had nuclear weapons in February, says a South Korean official. Seoul hasn't officially turned down a North Korean request made in January for 500,000 tons of fertilizer. But the planting season is almost over and Seoul is uncharacteristically sitting on the request. Meanwhile, senior officials from the North and South Korea are scheduled to meet this week; according to South Korea's Unification Ministry, Seoul will again...