Word: socialists
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...ethnic Koreans who dwell in Japan. And, like many zainichi, he grew up identifying with the North Korean regime. Lee attended Korean-language schools run by Chongyron, the fiercely pro-Pyongyang Korean residents association in Japan, where he was taught that North Korea was a socialist paradise...
Notorious for most of his career as a ferociously partisan conservative, French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have changed gear since his election in May. First, he named longtime Socialist Bernard Kouchner as his foreign minister, and included a handful of other leftists in his cabinet - a move denounced by the Socialists as taking advantage of personal ambition to divide and conquer the left. (Kouchner was expelled from the party.) Now, detractors charge, Sarkozy is seeking to sway the outcome of the Socialist Party's internal power struggle by off-shoring one of its main contenders, former Finance Minister Dominique...
...replace current IMF director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however, Sarkozy gives little sign he's ready to foreswear the European grip on the position for the sake of greater international diversity...
...Given the 58-year-old Strauss-Kahn's economic track record and his reputation as the French left's leading market-friendly reformist, there are few on either side of the nation's political divide challenging his nomination. Though dubious of Sarkozy's motives behind the nomination, even the Socialist Party has acknowledged that DSK (as Strauss-Kahn is known) is the consensus candidate of "France and European nations," and as such the party had "no opposition of substance or principle...
...Sarkozy's biggest worry in the year before the election was that Strauss-Kahn would win the [Socialist] primary, and campaign on the kinds of policies and vision for France that Sego could never come up with," says a Socialist party member who opposes what he calls a "depressingly feasible" Royal leadership if DSK moves to Washington to lead the IMF. "No one disagrees that Strauss-Kahn is right for job, but you'd have to be blind not to see that his exit from the domestic scene is in Sarko's political interests. More Sego and less DSK means...