The relation of the Roh Moo-huyn government with the U.S.
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- Roh’s Election Victory and the
Widening Gap Between the U.S. and South Korea
- By Tim Shorrock, Foreign Policy in
Focus, 7 January 2003. The December election of
human rights activist Roh Moo-hyun as South Korea’s
next president has turned into a giant wake-up call for
U.S. policymakers and foreign affairs specialists and sows
the seeds for a national debate about U.S.-Korean
relations.
- South Korea: acquittal of U.S. GIs fuels
outrage
- By Patrick O’Neill, posted on soc.culture.african
newsgroup on 15 January 2003. Brewing anger among working
people and youth in south Korea over the continued
presence of U.S. troops, their brutality, and their
immunity from Korean law boiled over in late
November.
- No shortage of reasons why South Koreans
dislike the U.S.
- By Brad Glosserman, The Japan
Times, 13 February 2003. Opinion polls from around
the world show increasing numbers of people believe that
the US is arrogant, unilateralist and indifferent to key
concerns of other nations. There is a rising belief that
the U.S. has become a source of international tension and
instability.This sentiment is especially powerful in South
Korea.