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...they now expect one in the next month or two - it would be the most provocative act the North has taken since it tested a nuclear weapon in fall 2006. Furthermore, Pyongyang announced late last week that it will no longer recognize any political or military agreements struck with Seoul, including a border demarcation in the so-called West Sea, where there have been two bloody clashes between the North and South in the past decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea to Obama: We're Trouble Too | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

Analysts in Seoul believe North Korea is trying to send messages to three audiences at the same time. The first is its own people, who need to be reassured at a time when rumors continue to circulate about the health of their Dear Leader, who foreign intelligence agencies believe had a stroke last summer. Like his father before him, Kim Jong Il rules on the strength of "symbolic capability," says Song Dae-sung, president of the Sejong Institute, a South Korean think tank. "North Korea idolizes a single leader. Kim Jong Il's bad health and leaflets being sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea to Obama: We're Trouble Too | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...second audience is the government in Seoul. Since President Lee Myung Bak took office a year ago, South Korea has been far less willing than the preceding administration to send economic aid to the North without movement on the nuclear issue. But the North's anger at this has gotten it nowhere thus far. In fact, Lee just appointed as his Unification Minister a notably hawkish scholar who was one of the architects of the policy that suspended rice and fertilizer aid to the North in lieu of progress on the nuclear issue. So North Korea watchers in Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea to Obama: We're Trouble Too | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...case, Minerva "ran circles around the government," says Brendon Carr, a lawyer with the law firm Hwang Mok Park in Seoul. In the past, explains Carr, the government was usually able to assert its views by strenuously voicing its opinions to newspapers and broadcasters by way of phone calls. But officials didn't know how to reach whomever was behind Minerva except by public announcements - which got the government nowhere. The resulting arrest of Park, Carr contends, is a classic case of bureaucrats with old habits struggling to adjust to the new Korea. "Korea is supposed to be a democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul Cracks Down on an Internet Financial Guru | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...edge about the downside of online banter, specifically online rumor mongering, which they fear is getting out of hand on the peninsula and only last year drove a South Korean celebrity to commit suicide. The Internet also helped to draw tens of thousands of citizens onto the streets of Seoul during last summer's anti-U.S. beef and Free Trade Agreement protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul Cracks Down on an Internet Financial Guru | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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