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The North’s leaders know that superior
South
Korean and US military forces would win a full-scale military conflict.
And yet, with 15,000 artillery tubes in the Demilitarized Zone, just 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Seoul, the
South
Korean capital, they also know that they could wreak havoc on
South
Korea’s economy, whereas the North has relatively less to lose.
North Korea has long been adept at flaunting its willingness to take risks, provoking a crisis in 2010 by sinking a
South
Korean naval vessel and shelling a
South
Korean island.
Following the “frank” discussion of North Korea by Xi and Obama, Xi hosted a summit with
South
Korean President Park Geun-hye, without first meeting with its official North Korean ally.
Winning with Opium in AfghanistanDespite considerable effort by the international community in Afghanistan since 2001 to eliminate the Taliban and al Qaeda, the insurgency in the
south
of the country has gathered momentum at breakneck speed in recent months.
Not only would poppy licensing address the poverty and hunger crises that have engulfed the
south
of Afghanistan; it also would stabilize existing local structures, giving communities a reason to support President Hamid Karzai’s government and the international community.
But for such a system to be successful, the extreme poverty in the
south
of the country must first be our top priority.
Indeed,
South
African President Thabo Mbeki has threatened not to participate unless Mugabe is invited.
Most
South
American countries are heavy commodity exporters, and the Asian crisis drove down world market prices for a wide range of commodities, including oil, copper, and agricultural products.
A half-dozen northern European countries can compete with the US when it comes to research and development spending and patents granted, but the
south
and east of Europe lag far behind.
Of all the Euroskeptic Conservative politicians I know, not one has ever mentioned Northern Ireland, let alone the sovereign country to the
south
of it.
India has been so deeply mired in political paralysis that the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen recently said that the country has “fallen from being the second best to the second worst”
South
Asian country, and that it is currently “no match for China” on social indicators.
So far, the Bush administration is playing tough and trying to force
South
American countries to submit by discussing trade agreements with Chile and Central America.
(The Chinese takeovers of
South
African and Nigerian textile industries are good examples of this strategy.
Ominously, the
south
is being taken over by hardcore Islamists, some allied with Al Qaeda.
Foreign investors are already reshuffling their portfolios, moving into euros, pounds, and even emerging-market currencies like the Brazilian real and the
South
African rand.
Kyrgyzstan, one of the poorest post-Soviet countries in Central Asia, has no obvious separatism-related problems, though it struggles with ethnic tensions in its south, where clashes between local Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in 2010 left more than 400 people dead.
Territories to its
south
– Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq – would go to Great Britain, which mainly sought to protect British interests along the Suez Canal, the main naval route to British India.
One of his consorts memorably and colorfully stated, “If a strong man were to throw four stones – one north, one south, one east, one west – and a fifth stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold, it would not equal the value of the Kohinoor.”
Indeed, a significant portion of the Jewish community in the
south
of France votes for the far-right National Front, which, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has concentrated its xenophobia on Muslims.
Similarly, ASEAN’s response to North Korea’s provocations – such as ongoing nuclear tests and the 2010 attack that sunk the
South
Korean corvette Cheonan, killing 46 seamen – has been muted, owing to some ASEAN member states’ sympathy for the North Korean regime.
Assad’s Alawites could control territory in the West, running from Latakia in the north to Damascus in the south, and an autonomous Syrian-Kurdish region could be established in the northeast, with the rest of the country being left to the Sunni opposition.
To be sure,
South
Korean President Moon Jae-in’s administration has already made such overtures, and to no avail.
Illicit capital flight is draining Africa dry – costing the continent about one trillion dollars over the last 50 years, according to a high-level panel chaired by former
South
African president Thabo Mbeki.
This made the legend of Kim as a resistance hero against the Japanese during World War II, and later against the Americans and their
South
Korean “collaborators,” all the more important.
From next year, it will stretch from the north of Finland to Cyprus and Malta in the south, from Ireland in the west to the Baltic states in the east.
SEOUL – After some two years of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the reprieve, however brief, that the upcoming Winter Olympics in the
South
Korean city of PyeongChang promises to bring is more than welcome.
The chaebol will not easily abandon their efforts to maintain – and strengthen – the corporate-governance structure that has allowed them to dominate
South
Korea’s economy, while Park, Moon, and Ahn are ready to leave their mark on
South
Korean history.
South
Asian countries also lead in terms of women in parliament (Nepal and Pakistan); women ministers (Bangladesh); and women leaders in sub-national government (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh).
The homeland is the Republic of Korea, located to the south, beyond the vistas of razor wire and well-tended minefields.
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