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Since the beheading of Korean interpreter Kim Sun Il in Iraq last week, Koreans have been struggling to comprehend the brutal act?and wondering whom to blame. Some of the thousands attending nightly candlelight vigils have pointed fingers at the United States; others denounced South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun; a few directed their anger at South Korea's small Muslim community, with one man even barging into a mosque in Seoul wielding a knife...
South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun was a visibly relieved man when he met the press last weekend for the first time since getting booted from office in March. An apologetic Roh told Koreans his impeachment was "all the result of my own shortcomings," adding, "I'll try not to disappoint you again." The day before, a vermilion-robed Yun Young Chul, president of the Constitutional Court, ruled that the National Assembly had gone overboard in impeaching Roh for a minor violation of the election law. On two other charges, economic mismanagement and corruption, it ruled that the assembly hadn...
...restored President faces a new political battle, this time with his own supporters. Roh is allied with the Uri Party, which won a majority in the National Assembly in last month's general elections. The party's sizeable left wing opposes Roh's decision to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June. Last week Uri Party floor leader Chun Jung Bae suggested that Korea might want to send money instead of men. "The influence of the antitroop dispatch, anti-Iraq war faction is growing," frets opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong, who fears a failure to send...
...Roh's closest allies in the party are already launching a counterattack. Two weeks after the election, influential solon Kim Bu Gyeom sat down with a group of party firebrands to tell them Roh can't waste time on ideological infighting when the real priority should be reviving the drooping economy. Still, Seoul hasn't confirmed that it will meet the June deadline for dispatching troops, and a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Friday: "We don't know when they're going." In his weekend speech, Roh promised to hit the ground running...
...face of an armed revolt. Pretoria also said it would support an investigation into Aristide's claim that he was forced to step down by the U.S. and France as rebels closed in on Port-au-Prince. Back in Charge SOUTH KOREA The Constitutional Court reinstated President Roh Moo-Hyun, who was impeached and stripped of his powers in March. Conservative lawmakers in the outgoing government voted to oust Roh on charges of electoral-law violations, incompetence and corruption, but were defeated in parliamentary polls in April by the pro-Roh Uri Party. After being reinstated, Roh apologized...