Bush, S. Korean Leader Differ on N. Korea

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_as/us_korea


WASHINGTON - President Bush's efforts to draw North Korea back to disarmament talks are being complicated by U.S. diplomatic strains with South Korea and China. Boasts by the North of its atomic bomb capability and harsh rhetoric by American officials aren't helping, analysts suggest.

Pyongyang's nuclear program tops the agenda for a White House meeting on Friday between Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.

China-led international negotiations over the North's nuclear ambitions have been deadlocked for close to a year, and both Bush and Roh are putting a high premium on getting them restarted.

But the two leaders have different views on how. The South is trying to coexist peacefully with its communist neighbor, and relations between the two Koreas have warmed.

That has created strains with a U.S. administration that views the North as a dangerous regime capable of producing and proliferating weapons of mass destruction.

[teryang]

1. American power and credibility damaged beyond repair

Thank the neo-cons and their diastrous schemes for dominance of Asia. The longer the diastrous war in Iraq goes on the weaker we get.

Bush clearly lives in another world. His influence in northeast Asia is almost zip at this point. From an Asian perspective, his comments are as delusional as Kim Jong Il's.