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...outside the treaty. All nations party to the pact, as 142 now are, must agree with the IAEA on terms for inspection of all their nuclear facilities. But North Korea, which signed the treaty in 1985, has never concluded a full-scope inspection pact, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo charged last week that Pyongyang has tested nuclear detonators. South Africa, widely believed to have the Bomb, announced last week its intention to sign the treaty and will now have to open its facilities to inspection. Countries that do not sign the treaty on occasion agree to have...
...self-immolation, five more protesters have turned themselves into human versions of the Molotov cocktails students throw with alarming regularity during South Korea's annual spring demonstration season. Although the suicides have failed to produce the massive demonstrations that pushed the previous regime from power in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo fired his hard-line Prime Minister last week and promised other reforms, hoping to end this season's violence. But street clashes continued, killing one more person at week...
With the exception of one or two unbalanced victims, the suicides have had the same motive: to galvanize demonstrators and rouse the general public to demand an end to what the students say are the injustices of the government of President Roh Tae Woo and of the corporate conglomerates that dominate the economy. The young political activists see themselves as the conscience of their nation. Enough reforms have occurred in the past four years to mollify much of the populace. That is the case with most students as well, and their apathy has frustrated radical activists, who have now turned...
Ivanov, deputy director of the Center on Asia and the Pacific at Moscow's Institute of World Economics and International Relations, said that "very important confidence-building measures between Moscow and Washington" led to last year's meeting between Gorbachev and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo in San Francisco...
Despite such reflexive gestures, however, and ritual references to "((South Korean President)) Roh Tae Woo and his cutthroats," Pyongyang takes pains to absolve its southern brothers of most blame. The history books allude only to the "war between America and North Korea," and the North Koreans constantly repeat that theirs is a "homogeneous nation," though nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come...