Korean, US Fighters Intercept Russian Aircraft 
Korea Times, South Korea - 1 hour ago
The Korean military has a 24-hour early warning system in place against aircraft entering the zone. Russian bombers over the past year have increased their …
Russian bomber again intercepted near US Navy ship Reuters
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South Korean president-elect Lee Myung-bak and his conservative Grand National Party promise economic progress for “company Korea,” a tougher stance on North Korea, and closer ties with the US.
Boosting South Korea’s military ties and cooperation with the US seems to be very close to the top of Lee’s policy agenda, at least judging by the [...]

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However, now the opposite dynamic is taking place at the other end of the Eurasian land mass. Outgoing South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is being replaced by the dynamic Lee Myung-bak. And President-elect Lee and his transition team have already sent their own strong signals that as part of their overall master-plan to revitalize the [...]

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It has become increasingly clear that Presidents Bush and Roh don’t much like each other and that their respective administrations don’t trust each other. In policy, the two capitals have fundamentally different ideas on how to treat North Korea, Washington taking a hard line while Seoul comes close to appeasing Pyongyang’s dictator, Kim Jong Il.
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Some politicians and civic groups in Korea are starting to hold the U.S. responsible for the two-week-old hostage crisis in Afghanistan with remarks that seem designed to stir up simmering anti-American sentiment here.
At a meeting of the Uri Party on Wednesday, Rep. Park Chan-suk said, “The root cause of the hostage crisis lies in our [...]

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While ethanol captures the imagination of energy officials in the Western Hemisphere, a familiar fuel source—nuclear power—appears to be stirring excitement on an even broader scale. Take Asia, where eighteen new plants are under construction and about 110 more are planned (Uranium Information Center), due in part to voracious demand from China, India, Japan, and [...]

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Several weeks after inciting international anger by disputing whether comfort women during World war II were coerced, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe formally apologized last week for his country’s use of female sex slaves from occupied territories during that era. Speaking from the upper house of the Japanese parliament, he supported an official 1993 statement [...]

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The longstanding U.S.-South Korea alliance, more than five decades old, has gone through a difficult period as of late. Among the many issues bedeviling this once solid relationship: disagreement over how to handle Pyongyang following this summer’s missile tests, a generational divide in opinion on the alliance and the U.S. military presence which underpins it, [...]

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Niall Ferguson:
The U.S.-Soviet nuclear rivalry was scary enough. Now imagine a world with multiple atomic antagonists.
May 15, 2006
Fast forward to 2016. What does the world look like? One plausible scenario is that it will be a world of multiple mini-Cold Wars, with nuclear powers eyeball to eyeball in nearly every region. To [...]

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