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...military support to deter the communist states to their west. Now, Japan is due to launch its largest ship since World War II, a "Hyuga" class helicopter carrier - Japan's pacifist constitution forbids the use of carriers with more offensive aircraft - that is designed chiefly for anti-submarine warfare. Seoul paraded a similar 14,000 ton vessel at Qingdao...
...American people, losing their frontier spirit, sat back, relaxed and enjoyed their opulent status quo. They wallowed in their country's No. 1 position in the world too long. They have to reawaken themselves in a belt-tightening way, not in a nebulously optimistic one. Il-Hwan Lee, Seoul...
...than undermining it," they write. Americans are "exporting their faith" by wedding it to their other gods: belief in free markets and "putting the consumer first." Corporations proudly tout Christian values, pastors like Rick Warren are launching publishing empires from the pulpit, and U.S.-style megachurches are sprouting from Seoul to Guatemala City, where one cavernous house of worship boasts a helipad (and an address off "Burger King Drive"). The authors falter by limiting their discussion of non-Christian faiths--including virulently antimodern strains of radical Islam. Readers are left to decide whether this religious revival is something to relish...
...North Korea has spent decades trying to peel the U.S. away from Japan and South Korea. The test presents a delicate challenge for President Obama: find a way to keep the U.S. and its allies on the same page as far as how to handle Pyongyang. Both Seoul and, to a greater degree, Tokyo are furious at the launch, which comes at a point when relations with North Korea are close to rock bottom for both. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak has junked his predecessor's "sunshine" policy, which showered economic benefits on Pyongyang with few strings attached. That...
...With reporting by Stephen Kim / Seoul...