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An advisor to the U.S. Congress said Friday a resolution drafted in 2003 to commemorate 50 years of the Korea-U.S. alliance died a quiet death in the House over anger in Congress at anti-American demonstrations in Korea. Rest the rest here. The advisor, Dennis Halpin, works for Henry Hyde. His wife is Korean, and he met her as a young Peace Corps volunteer. He’s considered one of the House’s go-to men on Korea policy. It’s friends like these that Korea...

Today, it’s the Brookings Institution . . . in the Washington Times, meaning that we’re not merely facing the death of the alliance, but the Apocalypse. For those of you from outside the Beltway, Brookings is a left-of-center foreign policy think tank that’s been supportive of negotiations with North Korea, often in the face of evidence that those negotiations have bought us little. Jack Pritchard has a job there, which might normally settle the matter. Author Richard Halloran, however, has...

Today, it’s the Brookings Institution . . . in the Washington Times, meaning that we’re not merely facing the death of the alliance, but the Apocalypse. For those of you from outside the Beltway, Brookings is a left-of-center foreign policy think tank that’s been supportive of negotiations with North Korea, often in the face of evidence that those negotiations have bought us little. Jack Pritchard has a job there, which might normally settle the matter. Author Richard Halloran, however, has...

Add the Asian Wall Street Journal and Thomas Barnett (The Pentagon’s New Map) to the list of those who’ve noticed that the United States and South Korea suffer from a visible lack of common interests and policies these days. The ASWJ said friction between Seoul and Washington was particularly intense over the joint North-South Kaesong Industrial Project. In the first stage of the project alone, 300 Korean companies were scheduled to employ 75,000 North Korean laborers and invest US$9.6 billion...

Add the Asian Wall Street Journal and Thomas Barnett (The Pentagon’s New Map) to the list of those who’ve noticed that the United States and South Korea suffer from a visible lack of common interests and policies these days. The ASWJ said friction between Seoul and Washington was particularly intense over the joint North-South Kaesong Industrial Project. In the first stage of the project alone, 300 Korean companies were scheduled to employ 75,000 North Korean laborers and invest US$9.6 billion...

The adjustment of alliances according to the inevitable shifting of nations’ interests is a gradual process, but if there’s a single event that can be said to mark the end of a military alliance based on a great nation’s promise to protect a small one, it is the point where the great nation publicly withdraws its promise of protection: [Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Henry] Hyde said the South Korean Defense Ministry omitted from its 2004 white paper...

The adjustment of alliances according to the inevitable shifting of nations’ interests is a gradual process, but if there’s a single event that can be said to mark the end of a military alliance based on a great nation’s promise to protect a small one, it is the point where the great nation publicly withdraws its promise of protection: [Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Henry] Hyde said the South Korean Defense Ministry omitted from its 2004 white paper...

My advice to everyone who values his health: do not have children. I think I’ve been sick now for a whole month, courtesy of the adorable little biohazards at my son’s preschool. To save time, I put everything into one post (HT to LiNK for most of these). _________________ . We Are (Not) One! Via MSNBC, we have more evidence, if any were needed, that South Korea’s popular enthusiasm for unification doesn’t necessarily extend to the people of North Korea....

South Korea’s president Roh Moo-Hyun may have entered office with the hope of a multifaceted agenda, but that agenda has only one surviving facet. His moves to create a more redistributive economy has sufficiently damaged the economy that Roh’s allies would dream of running on that record in the 2006 elections. The attempt to move the capital out of Seoul was a political disaster; it was blocked in the courts, and mostly succeeded in creating a dangerous new political enemy...

The Death of an Alliance, Part XVI: The Joongang Ilbo is asking whether the alliance is in trouble. There isn’t anything new in there, but it’s a nice, brief review of events over the last year.

The Death of an Alliance, Part XVI: The Joongang Ilbo is asking whether the alliance is in trouble. There isn’t anything new in there, but it’s a nice, brief review of events over the last year.

The Death of an Alliance, Part VIII. The experts in Washington are weighing in on that go-it-alone, unilateralist foreign policy that needlessly alienates allies. There’s a stunning degree of consensus.

The Death of an Alliance, Part VIII. The experts in Washington are weighing in on that go-it-alone, unilateralist foreign policy that needlessly alienates allies. There’s a stunning degree of consensus.