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...beyond his already lunatic "axis of evil" remarks to say how much he personally disliked North Korean leader Kim Jong Il? No wonder the North Koreans feel that they need to have nuclear weapons. Their pride is hurt, and they're scared. The South Koreans are scared too. Seoul, a bustling city of 10.6 million, lies only 30 miles from the Demilitarized Zone. Jack Cooper Van Nuys, Calif...
South Korea's leaders insist that the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula can be defused by maintaining peaceful dialogue with North Korea's erratic dictator Kim Jong Il. But black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared...
...call to “Boycott South Korea” (Column, Jan. 17), as an embarrassingly uninformed and needlessly inflammatory reaction to allegations of anti-Americanism in South Korea. But the fact that such allegations are coming from mainstream U.S. media is worrying. The recent candlelight vigils in Seoul for the two teenage girls accidentally killed by U.S. armored vehicles are interpreted as proof that the South Korean population is anti-American. Sure, the protests have allowed some South Koreans to vent anti-American feelings left over from the 80’s, but the main reason behind the protests...
...could provoke Pyongyang. In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it would hold a meeting on Feb. 3 to decide whether to refer the issue to the top U.N. body; South Korea urged a postponement to allow time for diplomats to work on the situation. In Seoul, North and South Korea met for their first high-level talks since the North precipitated the crisis when it withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty early this month. But after three days of marathon sessions, negotiators struggled to find wording for a final joint communiqué. Officials acknowledged that they had failed...
...Pyongyang is holding out for more. Despite a stream of assurances from Washington that it has no plans for a military strike on North Korea, Pyongyang insists on a long-term nonagression pact. Diplomats say it is also pushing for diplomatic relations with the U.S. After his meetings in Seoul, Kelly predicted a "very slow process" ahead. "We are going to have to talk and work together and communicate with other people, including with North Korea, very, very clearly." The smart money is betting Pyongyang will soon ratchet things up yet again to get Washington's full attention. The next...