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To: NickSE who wrote (98041)	5/12/2003 8:32:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Debka has been reporting that Saudi Arabia recently foiled a wave of Al Qaeda attacks...sounds like one got through.

To: NickSE who wrote (98041)	5/12/2003 8:38:04 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 281500

An interesting pair of articles on SK... In S. Korea, quiet talk of exit plans csmonitor.com A recent poll - indicating that many students would leave if war broke out - raised eyebrows in Seoul. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – Mr. Kim, a business executive here, considers his family "very patriotic." He attends club meetings, reads the papers, feels proud of Korea's rising stature in Asia. But in the past few months - a time of rapid political change and a nuclear standoff with the North - Kim (not his real name) heard his wife counsel their son, who is studying in the US, on the phone: "Don't come back right now. Find a way to stay in the US."..... How S. Korea's view of the North flipped csmonitor.com 'Sunshine' policy has profoundly changed public opinion of onetime enemy - and US SEOUL – When US officials helped shut down North Korea's nuclear plant 10 years ago, there was no question here about what the North was. Or, for that matter, what the South was. The North was the enemy. It had invaded the South to start the Korean War. It was a hostile, communist state. The South, by contrast, was free - an emerging democracy in the global order. Yet today, the South's prevailing view of the North has flip-flopped - and it is proving a difficult factor for the Bush White House in dealing with the current crisis.....