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...South Koreans, whose protection provides the rationale for the massive deployment of U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula, see things differently. President Kim was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his "Sunshine Policy," which has opened an unprecedented rapprochement between the two states created by the Korean War. And the South Korean Kim came to Washington to seek Washington's blessing for - and involvement in - his continued efforts to reduce tensions along the last Cold War frontier. But President Bush and his advisers were plainly not going to sign their Korea policy over to a South Korean dove...
Grizzle says that the organizers of the Forum did not consider Gomes' sexual orientation when deciding not to invite him to participate. Gomes publicly revealed that he was gay in 1991, after the conservative student journal The Peninsula published an issue denouncing homosexuality...
...writing the oath in blood from the stump of his severed finger. (Japan's yakuza also cut off their own digits, but that's usually to atone for blunders.) Cho's idol is Kim Du Han, the legendary gangster who battled the yakuza during Japan's colonization of the peninsula: "He was 100% nationalist." Cho is helping the families of the men who lopped off their pinkies last August. Some of them are still on the lam, sleeping in abandoned houses in the mountains. (A local police officer says the men are wanted for extortion and other crimes...
...most powerful, best-equipped armed forces in the world and the capacity to destroy the entire Korean peninsula while the first North Korean missile would still be en route to the American continent. Presently, there is no way to intercept such a missile in flight before hitting the U.S., but I am pretty confident that North Korea's leader would not want to see South Korea become an island before his own missile ever reaches its target. In this regard, I feel pretty safe...
...from the cold - if only to stave off mass starvation and economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense program so strongly favored by the Bush administration. Although intelligence experts disagree on whether and when North Korea would have the capacity...