Tag: South Korea

  • Roh Lauds EU, Scolds Japan, and Calls for Regionalism

    Japan Focus republished an April op-ed by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun today. Choice quotes: “[T]he Europeans, befitting of a people who invented democracy based on rational thought, are writing a new history based on the lessons learned from their long string of wars. …”Many scholars define the 19th century as the Age of Europe,…

  • A Shame Scare as VT Shooter Thought to be Chinese

    Shortly after yesterday’s tragedy made its way into the U.S. media, reports that the shooter appeared to be Asian appeared on television and online. Before authorities identified the man as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean national and English major at Virginia Tech, several news outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times (with a link from Drudge)…

  • China and South Korea Appear Ready to Deal With Abe

    You could say I’m behind, not yet having addressed Abe Shinzo’s official announcement that he’s running for LDP president, and the more important announcement that he would get behind constitutional revision full-force as prime minister. “I’d like to draft a new constitution with my own hands,” he said. In fact, top LDP officials have said…

  • N. Korean Warning Over U.S.-South Wargames

    Via BBC: North Korea has threatened to take pre-emptive action in response to US-South Korean military drills currently taking place in the region. According to the official KCNA news agency, Pyongyang described the drills as “an undisguised military threat” and a “war action”. US and South Korean troops began the military exercises on Monday. The…

  • Abe, MoFA Aim For High-Level Meetings

    Japan’s Foreign Ministry is looking to arrange high-level meetings with South Korean and Chinese officials in November at the APEC forum in Hanoi and at the ASEAN+3 meeting in December. The lead candidate for LDP president, Abe Shinzo, said on Aug. 3 he would work as prime minister to resume top-level summits with Chinese leaders.…