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...from power. "With the right political will," he writes, "the world could quickly agree on remedies to disarm a criminal state." Perhaps, but after years of trying, the best diplomatic efforts of the U.S. and North Korea's neighbors have done nothing to demilitarize a dictator who could level Seoul with conventional weapons alone. It's not as if the world lacks reasons to defang Kim. It just lacks...
...tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test?" asks the official. "Yes. Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's track record of bluff and brinksmanship, "it is very possible they are pretending it is a test," says Choi Jin Wook, an expert on North Korea at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification...
...latest incident involves fundamental problems caused by Japan's territorial claim to South Korea's Tokdo islets and its justification of its history of aggression, both of which raise ethical questions. Linking the South Korean government's stance to a domestic by-election misleads your readers about the issues. Seoul has no intention whatsoever of using the territorial and textbook issues politically. Rather, I would like to make it clear that South Koreans hope to see Japan become a responsible member of the international community based on a genuine recognition of universal values and historic truth. Kim Cheol Hyeon Consul...
...Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill was clearly frustrated last week when a reporter in Seoul asked him why Washington isn't offering a "bold solution" to convince North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to abandon his nuclear-weapons program. "Why are you blaming me?" asked Hill. "You should be blaming Kim Jong Il." Hill later told TIME: "Frankly, it is time to give Kim Jong Il a bit of a kick...
...Raising the stakes, Washington reportedly believes that the North, which in February declared that it was a nuclear power, may be preparing to prove it by testing a nuclear device. Seoul says it has no evidence for this, and there are suspicions that the U.S. could be stoking such fears merely to justify a tougher policy toward North Korea. If Pyongyang were to test a nuclear weapon, it might in fact play perfectly into Washington's hands, convincing the international community to get serious about imposing painful sanctions. "If North Korea takes such reckless actions as conducting a nuclear test...