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...spurious consistency in its approach to widely differing situations. In Iraq, as we know, that means using the U.N. inspections regime, backed by the possible use of force, to insist on Baghdad's disarmament. In North Korea, where military action is too dangerous--given the proximity of Seoul to Northern artillery--it means persuading those who have protected Pyongyang in the past to isolate it now. Practically, that means talking to Beijing--Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was there last week--where the U.S. may find receptive ears. Sources tell TIME that the Chinese government is reassessing its past...
...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?he's worried about his nation's longtime ally America. "The U.S. is oppressing North Korea," says Kim, adding that only Roh's brand...
...South Korea's new assertiveness?and the wave of sometimes violent anti-American street protests that go along with it?represents "a wake up call for the Bush Administration," says Victor Cha, an expert on the military alliance between Seoul and Washington at Georgetown University. "Something is really wrong." What's wrong is the allies' increasingly divergent diplomatic strategies over the question of North Korea. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in the South to deter the North Korean army from swarming over the 38th parallel and into Seoul, which is only about 64 kilometers from the border...
...Meanwhile, Roh was offering assurances that "nothing will change drastically" in the Seoul-Washington relationship. "I'm not anti-American," he said during the election campaign. "I just don't think we need to kowtow to the U.S." South Korea's new President will soon have a chance to show if that means his nation can lead instead of follow...
...Democracy that will set up shop next door in Iraq during and after a war, their trump card looks like playground equipment and they will have no choice but to adopt a more pro-American outlook. Similarly, war against North Korea is highly undesirable; the 11 million residents of Seoul sleep within the range of North Korean artillery. Allowing that state to retain and increase its nuclear capability, however, is just as unthinkable. Only once the United States has shown that it follows words with action in Iraq will the negotiators have any chance...