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...liner when it comes to dealing with Pyongyang, seems willing to break the increasingly warm embrace. "If North Korea opens up, and proceeds to dismantle its nuclear program, the South Korean government can increase and deepen its economic cooperation with the North,'' says Kim Tae Hyo, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University and one of the President-elect's chief advisers on North Korea. According to Kim, Lee wants to "pave the way'' toward eventual reunification of the two countries, in part by pouring an additional $10 billion in investment into its destitute neighbor over the coming 10 years...
...nothing else, Roh has temporarily shifted the media spotlight from sleaze to stability. "He's in a deep hole, so he's decided to gamble," says political scientist Kim Il Young of Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. Roh hinted last week that he might call off the vote, which might not be constitutional, anyway. If he forces the issue, Roh risks exposing his wobbly presidency to unforeseen complications, like Hong's call for a full-fledged election face-off. However unlikely that may be, the conservative party-which already has a majority in parliament-is rummaging through its ranks...
...took office. "He's not taking the pressure very well," says a foreign businessman who once counted himself as a Roh supporter. "I can even see a scenario in which he opens his mouth at the wrong time and resigns." Says Kim Il Young, a political scientist at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul: "This is not something that happens in a normal democracy...
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