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...gave him an understanding of the suffering, pain, brutality and injustice of war. And now Kerry may be more careful and reluctant to declare war on countries that don't fit into the American view of the world. That would be a blessing for us all! Kim Sae Yung Seoul...
...Despite the shock of the vote?never before in Korea's history had the nation's leader been impeached?the wheels of government continued to turn in an orderly fashion in Seoul's highest offices. Roh himself was visiting a train-car factory in South Kyongsang province when news of the impeachment came through. Looking oddly cheerful, Roh, decked out casually in a light blue, zip-up jacket, told workers assembled in the factory cafeteria, "I hope you continue your support for me just as you applauded when I entered the room. I will not get discouraged or give...
...coup d'?tat," seethes Im Jong Seok, a member of the Uri Party, a group of reformist lawmakers loyal to Roh. "It's a wrecking of democracy." Many others share those sentiments. The day before the impeachment, a protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Seoul. The next morning, a man drove his SUV onto the stairs of the National Assembly building and set the car alight, shouting, "I'll kill you all!" On the night of the impeachment, thousands of outraged Roh supporters thronged the National Assembly grounds...
...democracy. Once known as a can-do Asian Tiger that had inspiringly shed authoritarian rule in the late 1980s, South Korea has now become the poster country for government dysfunction. Shortly before chairing his first Cabinet meeting Friday night, acting President Goh Kun, a respected career bureaucrat and former Seoul mayor, called the impeachment a "deplorable" incident, saying, "I cannot but feel sorry to the nation that the situation has reached the point it has." Goh called for calm, promising to maintain stability in government policy on important issues such as relations with the U.S. Foreign investors, who have largely...
...direct approach to voters still carry wide popular appeal. Some observers say opposition lawmakers felt they had to impeach Roh to prevent Uri Party candidates from sweeping the upcoming election. "This was their final gamble," explains Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. "What else could [opposition politicians] do?" Says Hahm Sung Deuk, professor of political economy at Korea University in Seoul: "The impeachment was a political game of chicken...