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...collaborator during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula; in Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
...NOTEBOOK Korea: More woes for Roh Indonesia: Upping the Heat Milestones Verbatim Letters...
...wrenching and all-too-familiar dilemma. Similar demands were made of Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in April when three Japanese civilians were kidnapped in Iraq, but he refused to withdraw his 550 soldiers as their captors insisted (the hostages were later freed). Likewise, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun last month would not submit to terrorists' demands that he cancel plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq; as a result, a South Korean contractor who had been kidnapped in Iraq was beheaded...
...only logical explanation for this change in policy and her willingness to risk disappointing her allies is to tame the protests," says Representative Teodoro Casi?o. Senator Rodolfo Biazon notes: "Had [Arroyo] not listened to the pulse of the people, she could have been toppled." Still, Roh and Koizumi stood fast, despite the political risks back home. By showing that kidnapping pays, Arroyo might find she has created even bigger problems?for herself and for her country's allies...
...With emotions running high, Roh's critics hoped he would reconsider his controversial decision to send 3,600 soldiers to join the more than 600 military doctors, nurses and engineers already in Iraq. But last week the President stood firm, telling South Koreans that "terrorism must not achieve its goal." Washington, which needs all the support it can get in Iraq, praised Roh's tough-guy stance, relieved that for once he hadn't played to the anti-American sentiment of his young, left-leaning voter base. Even the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily, usually one of his harshest critics, praised...