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China & Taiwan ... North Korea & South Korea ...
China + North Korea ... Russia ... The US + Japan ...
The angles of this polygon bear watching, especially NOW.
(1)
"N. Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun will soon visit China ... The
two countries have been holding frequent talks in Beijing ..."
(2)
"Clinton has expressed his hope that China would also begin to share
values with the United States and Japan.
"During their meeting, Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Obuchi
affirmed a need for a joint response to North Korea ...
"Clinton announced that the US would help Japan get to the bottom of
allegations that North Korea has been kidnapping Japanese citizens.
NKorea Accuses Seoul of China Link
.c The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is accusing South Korea of using China
as a base to train guerrillas for an armed revolt and terrorism in its
territory.
North Korea has often denounced covert operations aimed against it by South
Korean agents in China but has not directly mentioned any armed operations
inside its territory.
``They have gone the length of offering money and weapons to reactionary
organizations to train armed bandits for an armed revolt and terrorism in our
areas,'' a North Korean government agency said.
A statement by the agency, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of
the Fatherland, was carried late Wednesday by the North's foreign news
outlet, KCNA.
South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, called the claim
``nonsense.''
The North Korean committee, which handles Pyongyang's policy toward South
Korea, said covert South Korean operations are active in three northeastern
Chinese provinces -- Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang.
In those provinces, South Korean agents posing as businessmen or missionaries
are hiring people to train ``dishonest young people'' for armed anti-North
Korea plots, the statement said.
The statement did not identify the ``dishonest young people,'' but it
apparently referred to North Koreans who have fled their hunger-stricken
communist country.
There have been no confirmed reports of armed revolts or terrorism in North
Korea.
The number of North Koreans fleeing their famine-hit country has risen
sharply in recent years. The number in China alone is estimated at between
15,000 and 20,000, according to Seoul officials.
The Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist
South in 1945. They are still technically at war, having signed no peace
treaty at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
N. Korea to set up consular office in Hong Kong
SEOUL, May 11 (Kyodo) -- North Korea and China have tentatively agreed to
establish a North Korean consulate in Hong Kong this year, South Korea's
Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday.
Yonhap quoted a diplomatic source as saying the two countries have held
frequent talks in Beijing on North Korea's request to open a consulate in
Hong Kong and recently reached a tentative agreement on the matter.
The source said the office is likely to be set up sometime in the second half
of this year after South Korea establishes a consulate in Shenyang.
The source also said North Korea and China will exchange a written agreement
on the North Korean consular office in Hong Kong when North Korean Foreign
Minister Paek Nam Sun visits China soon.
The North Korean office in Hong Kong will conduct consular affairs for North
Koreans in Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
TOKYO, May 8 (Kyodo) -- COMMON VALUES (Mainichi Shimbun):
In his meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton on May 3, Prime Minister
Keizo Obuchi affirmed that Japan and the United States share common values.
Alliances have always relied on the existence of shared interests and a
common enemy.
The end of the Cold War marked the disappearance of the enemies of the
superpowers. As the 21st century looms, the fundamental challenge facing the
Japan-U.S. relationship is to find a new purpose to keep the alliance
together.
After the end of the Cold War, the Bush administration recognized that
''common values'' were the key to maintaining the Japan-U.S. alliance. But
Japanese leaders had little awareness of the fundamental role that such
values would play in the alliance.
In a historic declaration, however, Obuchi cited ''democracy, freedom, and
human rights'' as values that bind Japan and the United States together. To
do its part to promote freedom, Japan will have to open its markets further
and adopt business practices and regulations that can be shared by the United
States.
In the 21st century, the mission of the Japan-U.S. alliance will be to
achieve peace by propagating these common values in Asia. Clinton has
expressed his hope that China would also begin to share values with the
United States and Japan.
During their meeting, both Clinton and Obuchi also confirmed the need for a
joint response to North Korea. And for the first time, Clinton announced that
the United States would help Japan in its efforts to get to the bottom of
allegations that North Korea has kidnapped Japanese citizens.
Unfortunately, American journalists and the U.S. public have displayed little
interest in the efforts to strengthen the military alliance between Japan and
the United States. This makes us ask the question, was it really necessary
for the House of Representatives to hurriedly pass the three bills to
implement the guidelines before Obuchi's departure for the United States?
Improved Korea Relations Expected
By PAUL SHIN
.c The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president said today he anticipates
a ``significant advance'' in relations between South and North Korea this
year.
Speaking to foreign reporters at a luncheon at his presidential Blue House,
Kim Dae-jung also said North Korea is showing more willingness than before to
open itself to the outside world.
``A significant advance is possible this year, and we're trying to fully
prepare ourselves for all situations,'' he said.
Relations between the two Koreas are icy, with the North shunning official
contact with Seoul, which it regards as a U.S. puppet state.
But Kim said an upcoming U.S. inspection of a possible North Korean nuclear
weapons site and a visit to Pyongyang by U.S. envoy William Perry could help
thaw relations between the two Koreas.
About 15 U.S. officials and experts are scheduled to begin inspecting the
suspicious site at Kumchangri, northwest of the capital of Pyongyang, later
this month.
Perry, Washington's point-man on North Korea, is also scheduled to fly to
Pyongyang later this month to lay out U.S. conditions for improved relations
with the communist country.
Perry is expected to explain the economic and political benefits North Korea
can expect from the West in exchange for abandonment of its missile and other
hostile military programs.
``If all these turn out to be positive, relations between the two Koreas
would significantly change, possibly leading to an end to the Cold War
tension on the Korean peninsula,'' Kim said.
North Korea, Kim said, is already showing signs of change by participating in
nuclear and missile non-proliferation talks with the United States, as well
as Korean peace talks that also involve China and South Korea.
Later today, Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Hong Soon-young urged North
Korea to accept the engagement policy before parliamentary elections in the
South scheduled for next April.
``Election campaigns tend to spawn extremely divisive debates on policy and
even a wise policy could be abandoned,'' Hong said in a speech delivered to a
policy seminar on the southern island of Cheju.
Quoting unidentified government sources, South Korean news media said the
government was giving North Korea until the end of the year to respond.
Republicans in Congress and the opposition in South Korea have raised doubts
about Kim's engagement policy, favoring a tougher stance against the North.
The two Koreas have been bitter rivals since the division of their peninsula
into the communist North and the capitalist South in 1945. They are still
technically at war, with no peace treaty signed at the end of the 1950-53
Korean War.
China will not bully others, Jiang tells Kan
.c Kyodo News Service
BEIJING, May 6 (Kyodo) -- President Jiang Zemin has told a Japanese
delegation that China will never intimidate other countries even after it
became stronger.
In a meeting Wednesday with Naoto Kan, leader of Japan's main opposition
party, Jiang said Chinese who want to intimidate other countries as China
becomes stronger will be ''beaten down.''
''China's economic growth will make the world stable,'' Jiang was quoted by
Kan as saying. Kan, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, met with Jiang at
Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
Jiang noted that China is still a developing country, discounting theories
that China's economic growth would lead it to become a threat. ''There is
still a gap between China and Japan,'' Jiang said.
Kan, who visited China for eight days beginning April 29, told reporters that
he stressed to Jiang that China had not been singled out as a target of
revised Japan-U.S. defense cooperation guidelines.
Japan's House of Representatives last month passed a set of bills for
implementing the new guidelines. The bills are aimed at facilitating defense
cooperation between Japan and the United States in emergencies in unspecified
''areas surrounding Japan.''
Kan told Jiang that any possible incident that occurred in relation to China
and Taiwan would not be seen to be included in such areas unless Japan was
threatened with attack.
China has refused to renounce the use of force in asserting its claim that
Taiwan is an inseparable part of China.
''I have listened carefully. I agree with the Democratic Party of Japan's
opinion,'' Jiang reportedly said.
Kan said he told Jiang that a peaceful resolution of the problem of North
Korea's missile program and suspected development of nuclear weapons required
dialogue among China, Japan, the U.S. and South Korea.
The two agreed on the importance of joint understanding and study between
China and Japan concerning the issue of historical recognition, Kan said.
Kan said he told Jiang he hoped bilateral relations could develop based on a
remembrance of history, using typical Chinese diplomatic language to refer to
Japanese soldiers' atrocities in China committed before and during World War
II.
Jiang stressed throughout their meeting that it is essential to look at
history as a mirror and to use history as a lesson to build friendly
bilateral relations, Kan said.
Kan is scheduled to return to Japan on Thursday evening.
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