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A New Year`s Wish : No `Idiot` Envoy Will Trust N. Korea on Nuclear Deal
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The New Year opens with the confrontation of forces on the Korean peninsula at their bitterest level since the 1990s when one North Korea negotiator talked of turning the South into "a sea of fire." Although nobody is now predicting a second Korean War, dialogue is dead. The two Koreas are basically not talking to each other while the South has suspended or canceled virtually all aid to the North... |
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[Eye on the World] Needed in Time Crisis: Unity, Faith, Confidence in Leaders
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The global financial crisis has dealt a serious blow to Korea leading to its crisis and its people`s uneasiness. The U.S. and South Korean presidents as well as heads of state around the world have repeatedly delivered the message to their citizens on the need to believe them and theirpolicies, but it has yet to work. The primary prescription for this bad financial illness is, however, to imprint ... |
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[Global View] Next U.S. Government Faces Tough Issues on Nukes, FTA
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WASHINGTON -- South Korea and the U.S. remain far apart on issues ranging from North Korea to free tradein the wake of the American presidential election. Washington strategists and tacticians do not seem to have grasped the significance of worsening relations between North and South Korea.... |
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[Eye on the World] Constitutional Revision, Reforms Carry Risk Far Too High to Ignore
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There are some opinions on the full-fledged reorganization of government systems. The most reckless of all is the opinion that it is time to fully revise the constitution again because 20 years have passed since the extensive constitutional amendment of 1987. It is absurd to change the constitution -- the framework of a nation -- since it`s basic law. I cannot agree with the idea of the National A... |
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