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...Seoul resident Chung Woo Shik, 62, was a boy when the Korean War ended a half-century ago, and he still remembers the horror of a conflict that left more than a million Koreans dead. But as he strolled through Seoul last week, holding onto his 2-year-old grandson with one hand and balancing a pizza box with the other, he seemed remarkably unruffled by the vitriol spewing from Stalinist North Korea just 40 kilometers away. After taking another step toward mass production of nuclear weapons by announcing it was restarting a plutonium-producing reactor, North Korea last week...
...This doesn't seem to have registered in Seoul, where the escalating crisis hasn't deterred South Korea from pushing ahead with plans to funnel more economic aid to the North. Last week, executives from South Korea's Hyundai Asan, a subsidiary of the giant Hyundai conglomerate, were taken in buses across the border on a road built to improve access to a tourism development in the North. The caravan over the first new route across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million...
...support from allies only grew last week when a high-level delegation from South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun visited Washington. At one meeting with top U.S. experts on Korea, Yun Young Gwan, a Roh advisor on foreign affairs, stunned his audience by announcing Seoul would rather see North Korea with nukes than see it collapse. Appalled, one participant described the South Korean delegation as "naive, sentimental, illogical and dissembling." (A Roh spokesman said he couldn't confirm Yun's remarks...
...busy weekend concluded yesterday morning with an appearance at Memorial Church by Kim, who is senior pastor of the 15,000 member Suwon Central Baptist Church in Seoul...
...More startling, perhaps, a government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections...