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To: NickSE who wrote (64058)	1/2/2003 11:33:24 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

U.S. to maintain N. Korean food aid This is the only sensible thing we can do on this part of the problem, and Reagan's remark cited in the article is absolutely correct ("a hungry child knows no politics.")

To: NickSE who wrote (64058)	1/2/2003 12:38:08 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

China, S. Korea to work to resolve crisis www.christiansciencemonitor.com CNN reports that South Korea and China have agreed to settle the North Korean nuclear crisis through negotiations. South Korea is believed to have urged China, which gives substantial aid to North Korea, to play a more active role in the crisis. South Korea will also send Assistant Foreign Minister Kim Han-Kyong to Moscow later this week for talks with Russian officials. These new moves come as North Korea pleaded with the South to stand with it against the United States. "It can be said that there exists on the Korean Peninsula at present only confrontation between the Koreans in the North and the South and the United States," the Communist state said in its New Year’s message. MSNBC reports that North Korea has long sought to drive a wedge between the US and South Korea. While experts doubt this strategy will succeed, The New York Times reports that the relationship with South Korea has become one of the Bush administration's biggest foreign policy problems. The Bush administration favors a policy of no new bargaining and no new economic incentives until the North dismantles its nuclear program. South Korea takes almost the complete opposite approach to the problems. "In some ways, the problem in South Korea has become harder to handle than that of North Korea," said a Korea specialist with ties to many members of President Bush's foreign policy team. "Our first priority is to get [the new Korean president] Roh and [the former Korean president] Kim to stop saying that the United States approach will not work. If we don't do that, the divide will get worse." Perhaps aware of the need to soften its image on this issue, The Washington Times reports that the US will continue to maintain food aid to North Korea, inspite of the north's efforts to restart its nuclear program. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican who toured North Korea in the 1990s, said North Korea's behavior had already cost it food aid from Japan and Europe. "No matter how incompetent the regime may be, it's critical that we step in to save the next generation," Mr. Kirk said. It is believed that more than 2.5 million North Koreans died in a famine in the early 90s. There is one thing, however, uniting all Koreans: a loathing for the new James Bond film, "Die Another Day" which features a renegade North Korean colonel as the villain. But writing in the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum says Koreans have got it all wrong and should not be offended. The real villain in this piece, she says, is the Harvard University fencing team