Roh Wanes

Count Roh Moo-Hyun among those being swept back out to sea in the post-9/11 wave of anti-American passive-aggressiveness. Chirac is battered, Schroeder is finished, and now Roh may be forced into a potentially fractious coalition with the far-far-left Democratic Labor Party or the center-left Millenium Democratic Party, from which he broke in 2002 shortly after his election. In Korean politics, such coalitions have a history of extreme instability.

It remains to be seen whether these parties can unite sufficiently to present voters with a common electoral platform. General agreement on a few issues won’t suffice.