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...remembers the horror of a conflict that left more than a million Koreans dead. But as he strolled through Seoul last week, holding onto his 2-year-old grandson with one hand and balancing a pizza box with the other, he seemed remarkably unruffled by the vitriol spewing from Stalinist North Korea just 40 kilometers away. After taking another step toward mass production of nuclear weapons by announcing it was restarting a plutonium-producing reactor, North Korea last week vowed to unleash "total war" if the U.S. bombed the Yongbyon nuclear complex. That threat was followed by another: if America...
...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 to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage?a possible step toward producing nuclear weapons...
...concerned about its belligerent neighbor North Korea having nuclear weapons and more concerned about its hegemonic U.S. ally, visit the S bar in Seoul's chic Apgujeong quarter. It's only 40 kilometers to the dmz?well within artillery range?but you can't get much farther from the Stalinist North than this hip watering hole, where college student Lee Sung Yeon, 20, sips expensive cocktails with her girlfriends and talks about politics. Lee didn't attend recent anti-American protests, during which some of the demonstrators called for the withdrawal of 37,000 U.S. troops stationed in her country...
...more than half of South Koreans, particularly younger voters, don't see the Stalinist North as a menace, according to a recent poll by Gallup and the South's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. They view the impoverished country as they might an aggressive panhandler who, through assistance and negotiation, can be coaxed into becoming a good citizen; and they see America's hard-line policy as a needless provocation of unpredictable dictator Kim Jong Il. "There is a totally different threat perception between South Koreans and Americans," says Balbina Hwang, a Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington...
When he named North Korea as a member of his infamous "axis of evil," U.S. President George W. Bush could not have anticipated just how far the Stalinist state would go to earn the label. While Bush's foreign policy team tries to stay focused on stripping Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction it may possess, the North's leader Kim Jong Il seems bent on demonstrating that his own regime is just as menacing. At least Saddam Hussein claims to harbor no biological, chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international...