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...million voters who elected liberal lawyer Roh Moo Hyun as South Korea's new President last week, is concerned about homeland security. He ought to be. North Korea is trying to arm itself with nuclear missiles and seems bent on forcing a showdown with the U.S., which wants to strip the North of its weapons of mass destruction and appears willing to risk war to do so. But during a noisy Seoul street party celebrating Roh's cliff-hanger Dec. 19 victory, Kim, a 26-year-old publishing company employee, says he's not worried about the North...
...Anti-American sentiment is rife in South Korea today, and as Roh, 56, prepares to move into the Blue House next February for a five-year presidential term, a sea change in U.S.-South Korean relations appears to be under way. In his first postvictory public utterances, the President-elect said he wants South Korea to be treated as an equal by the U.S., not as a ward. And despite his lack of foreign-policy experience, he made it clear that his incoming administration will not defer to the U.S. on North Korean diplomacy. "The traditional friendship and alliance between...
...Roh does not have an overwhelming mandate from voters. The election turnout was low, and his 48.9% of the vote was just a 2.3 percentage point margin of victory over conservative opponent Lee Hoi Chang. Lee, 67, nearly squeaked into office by talking tough on North Korea. He argued that the North's recent confession of pursuing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords clearly showed that outgoing President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine" engagement policy had failed. But South Korea's younger voters, who grew up during the years when the country was run by military dictators propped...
...Roh, who was tapped by the leading Millennium Democratic Party as the candidate to succeed Kim, is committed to engagement. A self-taught lawyer who never attended university, Roh acquired his liberal credentials by defending students and workers on strike who ran foul of the country's draconian national securities law. A card-carrying idealist, he once suggested that U.S. troops be ejected from Korean soil...
...scenario its neighbors find particularly dangerous. South Korea goes to the polls next week to pick a new president, and the race is too close to call between the more hawkish Lee Hoi-chang, who favors a tough line with North Korea, and the ruling party's Roh Moo-hyun, who favors a continuation of rapprochement. A victory by Roh would likely increase pressure for Washington to follow the path of engagement, albeit on tougher terms than the Clinton Administration demanded...