61. Global Beat: East Asian Security Links Directory issues, while the Asia Society's AsiaExperts database contains information on Asianculture, arts, history, and society. north and South korea US Forces http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/asialinks.html

East Asian Security Links Directory Regional Coverage North and South Korea China-Taiwan Japan Regional Coverage Who Calls The Shots In Asia? This new on-line resource features biographical information, selected works, and experts who can speak on the most important Asian leaders, including those of Australia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Taiwan. From Asia Pacific Media Network Deadline Scholar. APEC Secretariat Website ASEAN Regional Forum Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Asia Society ... Asia Times On-Line Daily news stories from all over the world, including news, op-eds, features, and focus sections on: Asia and the Euro, the Asian Crisis, Anwar/Malaysia, Indonesia, Whither China, India-Pakistan, The Koreas, Japan Economy, Caspian Oil, Global Economy, Technology, Religious Wars, and Cambodia Council on East Asia Libraries The National Bureau of Asian Research Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Daily Report Summaries from US and Asian press, governments, and NGOs on military, diplomatic and security affairs. NYU: Chronology of the Asian Currency Crisis NYU Stern School: Background and Proposals on What Caused Asian Economic and Currency Crisis and its Global Contagion US State Department East Asian and Pacific Affairs Recent speeches and briefings, key policy statements since 1993, extensive regional and country information sheets and links.

62. World Telephone Numbering Guide Also, CCK Public Notice. history of numbering in East Africa. See EAPTC historicalnotes. korea, - -. See north korea or South korea. Kuwait, +965. Number Format. http://www.wtng.info/wtng-kk.html

Updated 8 January 2003 By Country Code By Country Name Other WTNG pages Acknowledgements Main Page Help Calendar Glossary ... What's New Countries: K... Kazakstan Kenya Kiribati Korea - see North Korea or South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic Kazakstan Number Format Area Code: 3 digits Subscriber Number: 7 digits (see note below) Trunk Prefix: 8 International Prefix: 8 (wait) 10 Subscriber numbers are 7 digits, but 6-digit numbers may be found off the dialable network) Area code information centralasia.kz DCCL Other Information Kazakstan remains under the same numbering plan as Russia , a holdover of the former USSR system (country code 7). There are no current reports about this nation receiving its own country code assignment. Major carrier is Kazakhtelecom See Russia section for other details on Kazakstan numbering. There is also a 1994 document on Kazakstan numbering through the ITU site. Kenya Number Format Area Code: 1-3 digits Subscriber Number: 5-6 digits Trunk Prefix: International Prefix: 000 Area code information DCCL 8 June 2002 to 30 July 2003 - National renumbering National regulator Communications Commission of Kenya initially issued an announcement in August 2001 on the future of its national telephone numbering.

63. Jeindex of Political Prisoners Asylum in north korea and Protecting the Expelled north koreans'Human Working Women's Network history Travel with Bang Hyun http://www.kctu.org/links/thers.html

Korean Progressive Index Labor Women Environment Culture ... Others Labor Korean Confederation of Trade Union KCTU ChunBuk Regional Council KCTU Ulsan Regional Council Korean Metal Workers' Federation ... Institute for Workers' Rights - <Nodong General Information> Published, "The Meeting for Migrant Workers' Human Right" Established Task Group for Labor Information Songnam Migrant Worker's Home Korean Women Workers Associations United Lobor Info-communication Support Organization ... FKTU Gumi Regional Council Human Right s Homepage for Conscience Prisoners Amnesty International of Korea Amnesty International Seoul National University Group Korea Campaign to Ban Landmines ... Netizens Against Famine - Homepage for Saving Starving Children in North Korea Citizens' Alliance to Help Political Prisoners in North Korea Korean National Congress for Reunification Peacnet Korean Sharing Movement ... Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan Women Gwanak Regional Women's Meeting for Social Movement Homepage for Korean Daughters Research for Women's Freedom of Sexual Suppression The Women's News ... Women On The Web Environment Network for Green Transport Green Korea United C.R. Homepage for Green Environment

64. Dealing With North Korea - Speech From From The Australian Minister For Foreign partner for Australia in multilateral forums, including the WTO, APEC, the ASEANRegional Forum and the north korea has pushed its history of brinkmanship http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2003/030212_dprk.html

Home Biography Department Speeches ... Transcripts Speeches at the 'Korea Re-examined' conference dinner Sydney University, 13 February 2003 Dealing with North Korea It is a great pleasure to address this distinguished gathering of leading Australian and Korean business people and academics. The timing of your conference is especially well judged in light of the forthcoming inauguration of President-elect Roh Moo-hyun, in less than two weeks ( on 25 February I met President-elect Noh's special envoy, Chong Dong-young, at the World Economic Forum in Davos three weeks ago, and we discussed a number of issues of common interest at length. I look forward to continuing the warm and productive relations Australia has enjoyed with President-elect Noh's predecessors across a broad range of issues of mutual interest and concern. Today our relationship encompasses trade, investment, and our economies, as well as the security and stability of the region. Since 1997, the South Korean economy has made a remarkable recovery – backed up by solid corporate sector reform. Our bilateral trade, similarly, has recovered to around A$14.7 billion in 2002; an increase of around 50 percent since 1997.

65. The ICRC In North Korea regional Delegation Bangkok ICRC maps Maps of ICRC operations. Countries coveredCambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Mongolia, north korea, South korea, Taiwan http://www.helpicrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/north_korea

About the ICRC ICRC Activities The ICRC worldwide Focus ... North Korea The ICRC in North Korea This country is covered by the regional delegation in Bangkok. ICRC/Krakolinig P., Ref. KP-N-00001-20 Main building of ortho centre Songrim (rehabilitation room, fitting room, production hall). 06/11/2002 An ICRC limb-fitting project was initiated in North Korea in 2002, in cooperation with the national society and the ministry of health. A three-year cooperation agreement was signed in March. ICRC/ Krakolinig P., Ref. KP-N-00001-15 Antero Kinnunen fitting a bilateral lower limb amputee. 06/11/2002 ICRC/ Krakolinig P., Ref. KP-N-00001-06 Antero Kinnunen, ICRC head of ortho project, supervises trainees. 06/11/2002 The workshop is located in Songrim, a city some 30 km south-west of Pyongyang: local technicians began their training in June, and production of artificial limbs started the following month. Official figures indicate there are some 36,000 amputees in North Korea, but the country's rehabilitation facilities can provide artificial limbs for only 4,600 patients a year. loadcomb('1', 'list', 'list');

66. Magazine Articles On North Korea (current) Quagmire A sampling of Atlantic articles from the 1950s to the present offers perspectiveon the long history of tension between north and South korea, and on http://www.magportal.com/c/soc/reg/as/nkorea/

all category Location: Categories / North Korea Magazine articles on politics and society in North Korea. There are 67 old articles available for this category. Help Home Site Map Contact Us ... Advertise MagPortal.com is a registered service mark of Hot Neuron LLC. Hot Neuron is a service mark of Hot Neuron LLC.

67. Emerging From Conflict-Reports And Papers (PDF 540 KB). north korea. US Strategies for regional Security. regional Approachesto Proliferation Prevention October 2527, 2001 Warrenton, Virginia http://www.emergingfromconflict.org/TOC.html

Emerging From Conflict SUMMARY HISTORY ... VIETNAM Site Map General Information EFC home The Stanley Foundation Summary History ... Staff List Program Areas China Cuba Iran Iraq ... Vietnam Reports And Papers China Cuba Iran Iraq ... Vietnam China Changing Patterns of Regional Conflicts and US Relations Panel at the 42 nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association February 20-24, 2001, Chicago, Illinois Download the Individual papers Ballistic Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security: Views from Washington, Beijing, and Tokyo Phase I: November 16-17, 2000, Washington, DC Phase II: November 30-December 5, 2000, Monterey, California Download this Policy Bulletin. (PDF 106 KB) Download this report. (PDF 2,697 KB) The Storm After the Storm: China's WTO Accession and the US-China Trade Relationship Forty-First Strategy for Peace Conference October 26-28, 2000, Warrenton, VA Download this policy bulletin. (PDF 146 KB) Download this report. (PDF 78 KB) Uncertain China: Dealing With a Potential Great Power Forty-First Strategy for Peace Conference October 26-28, 2000, Warrenton, Virginia

68. Emerging From Conflict-North Korea And The US For the United States, containing north korea's nuclear weapons program while encouragingany In this case, US willingness to cooperate with regional and other http://www.emergingfromconflict.org/nkorea/nkorea.html

Emerging From Conflict SUMMARY HISTORY ... VIETNAM North Korea North Korea faces immense challenges in feeding its population while maintaining great ambivalence about economic reform and relaxing its defensive posture vis-à-vis its neighbors and most of the rest of the world. For the United States, containing North Korea's nuclear weapons program while encouraging any opening to the outside world that may reasonably be possible is a significant policy challenge. In this case, US willingness to cooperate with regional and other countries and to work toward multilateral and nonmilitary solutions is a hopeful sign. The Stanley Foundation hopes to develop programs that will lead to the search for common ground with North Korea, while promoting mutual and equal dialogue, expanded contacts, and improved communications and information-sharing toward the goal of a normalized political and economic relationship. Contact the Webmaster

69. CNN.com - North Korea Blasts U.N. Moves - Feb. 14, 2003 South korea and Japan urge north korea to work with the United Nations to club •Explainer Taepo Dong2 missile • Map Nuclear facility • history US-N http://europe.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/14/nkorea.nuclear/

document.adoffset = 0; document.adPopupFile = '/cnn_adspaces/adsPopup2.html'; The Web CNN.com Home Page World Africa Americas ... Special Reports ON TV What's on Biz International Business Traveller Design 360 ... Talk Asia Services E-mail Mobile AvantGo Make homepage Ad info About us Partner Hotels Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese North Korea blasts U.N. moves Tensions began mounting on the Korean peninsula in October Story Tools VIDEO South Korea and Japan urge North Korea to work with the United Nations to resolve the nuclear crisis. CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae reports. PLAY VIDEO China cautiously backs the IAEA decision to refer the N. Korean nuclear issue to the U.N. Security Council but warns against sanctions. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports. PLAY VIDEO The N. Korean government maintains a huge army as a deterrent force, while it seeks to become a nuclear power. CNN's Mike Chinoy reports PLAY VIDEO RELATED Japan ready for N. Korea strike Rumsfeld: U.S. may cut South Korea forces Regional support sought SPECIAL REPORT Nuclear development The nuclear club Taepo Dong-2 missile Nuclear facility ... Nuclear crisis PYONGYANG, North Korea (CNN)

70. CBS News | Landmark Japan, N. Korea Talks | September 17, 2002 06:45:55 Follow the rift between north korea and South korea that has Learn about the peopleand history of each country, and chart their attempts to forge a new http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/17/world/main522214.shtml

Home America At War U.S. World ... CBS News i-Video September 17, 2002 06:45:55 The Early Show CBS Evening News 48 Hours 60 Minutes ... Section Front E-mail This Story Printable Version Landmark Japan, N. Korea Talks PYONGYANG, Sept. 16, 2002 Historic handshake: Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, at the beginning of their summit in Pyongyang. (Reuters/Pool) North Korea appears to be emerging from its Cold War cocoon to reach out to the outside world, while Koizumi is keen for a diplomatic coup to bolster his popularity. (CBS) Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a high-stakes meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il that could mark a new start in long-strained ties and ease regional tensions or leave him looking like a diplomatic flop. His talks with the North Korean leader, which began at a guesthouse a couple of hours after his arrival, were expected to address such security issues as the North's missile development and suspected nuclear weapons program. The summit was to span most of the day, divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Koizumi, looking stern and surrounded by bodyguards as he stepped out of the special government plane, was to stay in the North Korean capital for only one day, returning to Tokyo later Tuesday night.

71. Regional Links and travel in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, north korea, South korea, and Taiwan http://inlineskating.about.com/cs/regionallinks/

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72. Envisioning A Peace In Korea Further, the successful economic development of north korea will also issue comesup in South korea, Japan can is to meet the challenge of history to establish http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/envisioning03.html

Responsible options for Japan If we consider the four points raised above in reverse order, first, Japan can begin by admitting its historical responsibility to North Korea, and act in good faith by taking care of compensation to the nation and individual victims. Instead, the Japanese government has chosen to start with the issue of the alleged abduction of its ten citizens. Of course, the agony suffered by the families of those believed to have been abducted is not difficult to imagine. However, North Korea's refusal to accept the Japanese government's position of starting talks with that issue, without an official apology and compensation for the hundreds of thousands of "comfort women" and forced laborers who were also "abducted" in wartime, is understandable. Japan must first make it clear that it owes responsibility for its actions during the colonial period, and then proceed to put the issue of the missing Japanese citizens on the table. This is the proper order of things, which may be called a modest initiative Japan can take. In effect, what does the Japanese government hope to accomplish by raising its abduction issue at the beginning of normalization talks, practically blocking any further progress? Besides, if there really are abducted Japanese citizens, the question must be handled by the Japanese government with realistic caution so that no harm befalls these people.

73. Joint US-Japan-Rok Trilateral Statement With a view to contributing to regional as well as international peace and coordinationremain vital to the success of their efforts towards north korea. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021026-1.html

Policies in Focus National Security Homeland Security Economic Security More Issues News Current News Video Press Briefings Proclamations ... Radio Addresses News by Date April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 ... January 2001 Appointments Nominations Application Photos Photo Essays Federal Facts Federal Statistics West Wing History Home October 2002 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary October 26, 2002 Joint US-Japan-Rok Trilateral Statement Today President George W. Bush, President Kim Dae-Jung, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met to reaffirm their commitment to a peaceful Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons. The three leaders agreed that North Korea's program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons is a violation of the Agreed Framework, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea's IAEA safeguards agreement, and the South-North Joint Declaration on Denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The three leaders called upon North Korea to dismantle this program in a prompt and verifiable manner and to come into full compliance with all its international commitments in conformity with North Korea's recent commitment in the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration. In this context, the three leaders agreed to continue close coordination. The three leaders stressed their commitment to resolve this matter peacefully in close consultation trilaterally and with other concerned nations around the globe.

74. Statement By The President This program undermines regional and international security and the internationalnonproliferation regime. north korea is also in direct violation of the http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021115-8.html

Policies in Focus National Security Homeland Security Economic Security More Issues News Current News Video Press Briefings Proclamations ... Radio Addresses News by Date April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 ... January 2001 Appointments Nominations Application Photos Photo Essays Federal Facts Federal Statistics West Wing History Home November 2002 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 15, 2002 Statement by the President I welcome yesterday's strong statement by the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) on the need for North Korea to eliminate its nuclear weapons program and its decision to suspend further shipment of fuel oil to North Korea beginning in December. We are working closely with our partners in KEDO and our friends around the world to address this shared challenge. North Korea has acknowledged that it is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program based on enriched uranium. This program undermines regional and international security and the international nonproliferation regime. North Korea is also in direct violation of the North's commitments under the Agreed Framework, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), its International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Agreement, and the Joint North-South Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's clear violation of its international commitments will not be ignored. The United States hopes for a different future with North Korea. As I made clear during my visit to South Korea in February, the United States has no intention of invading North Korea. This remains the case today. The United States seeks friendship with the people of North Korea.

75. BA Asian Studies - Korea Option economic, and social development of both South korea and north korea. 448, Modernkorean Society (5), HSTAS 481, history of Traditional korea (5), HSTAS 482 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/advise/catalog/Korea-ba.html

Jackson School UW Home Search UW Program Description ... Korean Studies Program Bachelor of Arts Degree Program Description The objective of the program is to provide students with a broad background which will be of use to them in a variety of professions, such as teaching, business and government. Through this program, students can prepare for graduate work in Asian studies, or in such disciplines as anthropology, political science, comparative literature, sociology, and history. The program emphasizes the study of Korea in the context of East Asian and Asian civilization and the modern world economy, not simply as a single country in isolation from its neighbors. Students are encouraged to take related courses on China, on Japan, and in international studies, so that they will emerge from their experience at the University with comprehensive training. —Clark Sorensen, Chair Korea Studies The B.A. degree is designed as preparation for graduate work in a discipline department or as a terminal degree for work in business, government, journalism, secondary school teaching, or similar career activity.

76. Korea At A Glance Brief history. have indicated beginnings of settlement in the korea pennisula. 1392 Koryo Dynasty (Capital Kaesong located in north korea), Budhism became http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/korea/glance.html

Korea at a Glance Moogunghwa(Rose of Sharon) is much loved as the national flower of Korea, because it symbolizes the strong and simple spirit of the Korean people which has endured the nation's long and often difficult history. Location Area Population Government ... Education Location The Korea peninsula extends southward from the northeast part of the Asia continent between latitudes 33 degree and 43 degree north, and longitudes 124 degree and 131 degree east. The peninsula has been devided in two since 1945; the Republic of Korea(capitalist), commonly called South Korea, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(communist), or North Korea. Area The administrative area of the Republic of Korea is 99.299km^2(400 acres). a little larger then twice the size of Switzerland. 70% of the land is mountainous, especially along the East Coast. Population 43.7 million ('92) Annual Growth rate : 0.9 % ('92) Population Density : 439.8 people per square kilometer ('92) Urbanization rate : 74.4 % ('90) Average Family size : 3.7 persons ('90)

77. North Korea A Nuclear Stooge For China? Beijing may have had its political reasons for assisting Pakistan and north korea,in doing so, it has opened the Pandora’s box of regional nuclear arms race http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/16/172426.shtml

focusIN Specialty Web Network April 10, 2003 America Rises: Support President Bush Click Here Home Late-Night Jokes ... More Inside Cover Stories Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here NewsMax Top 10 Hottest Sellers April 9, 2003 Catastrophe The USS Bush Hat I Like Bush T-shirt Off-the-Record with Bernard Goldberg ... VISIT OUR STORE New items all the time North Korea a Nuclear Stooge for China? Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Friday, Jan. 17, 2003 “Beijing’s willingness to sell and transfer critical components of WMD [weapons of mass destruction] technology makes China directly or indirectly a key component of the global proliferation of nuclear and missile technology,” according to Thomas Woodrow, onetime senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In a report prepared for the Jamestown Foundation, Woodrow informs us that though "Beijing may have had its political reasons for assisting Pakistan and North Korea, in doing so, it has opened the Pandora’s box of regional nuclear arms race.” Apparently, other nations are taking note of this. Some have reacted by accelerating or contemplating their own nuclear buildups:

78. World Tribune.com: Sol W. Sanders - Iraq & North Korea: The Double-bladed Axe to the rest of the world, the north korean leadership argued that US policy is differentin korea and Iraq. from a tyrannical regime with a history of trying http://216.26.163.62/2003/s1_13.html

A SENSE OF ASIA See the Sol Sanders Archive By Sol Sanders SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM January 14, 2003 If “the axis of evil” was only a rhetorical phrase when President Bush threw it out just a year ago – a misguided one his critics maintain – that is certainly no longer the case. Every day presents new evidence the two major foreign policy issues are no more separated than the three Axis powers of World War II. Naming the North Koreans as international culprits did not provoke a new crisis in the Peninsula. Just as in 1993-94, when they first used the threat of weapons of mass destruction to squeeze aid and a respite for a tottering regime from the Clinton Administration, the formula is much the same. Their threat of a new nuclear weapons program and further development of missiles was already underway. While their goals may seem lunatic to the rest of the world, the North Korean leadership — with one whopping exception,, the initiation of the Korean War in 1950 — always has shown cunning to play from a weak hand. Now, as in the past, their tactics have been brutal – and often cavalier; their propaganda has been Goebbels-style – the big lie and baseless calumny. But all, as they say, has been crazy as a fox. Their long and successful use of competition between Communist China and the Soviet Union has now been replaced by a more sophisticated manipulation of Japan, South Korea, Russia, and even China, against the U.S. and each other. Their appeal to Korean nationalism in a newly prosperous and self-confident South Korea is clever and has accurate gauged the mood. Their appeal to Japanese leadership suddenly plunged into the realities of WMD so near at hand, partially succeeds. They know they present their Chinese Communist partners with equally unpleasant alternatives if Beijing intervenes – nuclear weapons in the Korean peninsular if Pyongyang goes ahead, and possibly eventually as a result in Japan and Taiwan, or implosion of a regime if the pressure to halt it should go awry that would bring a flood of refugees and probably the unwanted reunification of Korea.

79. Facts On Korea history. findings have indicated beginnings of settlement in the korea pennisula. 1392 Koryo Dynasty (Capital Kaesong located in north korea), Budhism became http://www.getz.com/korea.htm

Information about KOREA Overview History Economy Overview Area: Population: 44.4 mil - Est. Capital: Seoul Languages: Korean System of Government: A republic with power centralized in a strong executive president, although there are moves toward some regional autonomy. History 600,000 years ago: Archeological findings have indicated beginnings of settlement in the Korea pennisula. 2333 B.C. : The legendary figure Tangun founded Ko-Chosun, the first Korean kingdom, at Pyungyang in the northern part of the pennisula. 57 B.C ~ A.D. 668 : Three Kingdoms Period Koguryo Kingdom (37 B.C. ~ A.D. 668 ) Paeche Kingdom (18 B.C. ~ A.D. 660 ) Shilla Kingdom( 57 B.C. ~ A.D. 676 ) A.D. 676 ~ 935 : United Shilla Kingdom( Capital : Kyungju) A.D. 918 ~ 1392 : Koryo Dynasty (Capital: Kaesong located in North Korea), Budhism became the state religion and greatly influenced politics and administration. 13th century : Mongolian invastions. 1392 ~ 1910 : Choson Dynasty (Capital Seoul). Complete organization of the state on Neo-Confucianist principles. 1418 ~ 1450 : Reign of King Sejong during his reign the native alphabet, hangul, was invented.

80. US Boosts Capacity To Launch Air Strikes On North Korea Cheney has obliquely threatened Beijing with a regional arms race, and a nucleararmedJapan, if it fails to pull Pyongyang into line. If north korea has a http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/nkor-m18.shtml

Enter email address to receive news about the WSWS Add Remove SEARCH WSWS English German ON THE WSWS Donate to the WSWS Expansion Fund! Editorial Board ... Books Online OTHER LANGUAGES German French Italian Russian ... Indonesian LEAFLETS Download in PDF format HIGHLIGHTS The war against Iraq and America's drive for world domination Oppose US war ... Korea US boosts capacity to launch air strikes on North Korea By Peter Symonds 18 March 2003 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author Even as the US prepares to launch an all-out invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has sharply raised the military stakes on the Korean peninsula by significantly bolstering its ability to launch air strikes on North Korea. Last week the Pentagon dispatched six F-117A stealth fighters to South Korea, nominally as part of annual joint exercises. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its associated battle group arrived at the port of Busan last weekend carrying 5,000 soldiers and sailors. They joined South Korean troops and the 37,000 US troops permanently stationed in South Korea for military drills scheduled to run to April 2. The deployment of F-117A warplanes is, however, clearly aimed at sending a message to Pyongyang. The radar-evading stealth fighters were last sent to South Korea in 1993 when the Clinton administration was on the brink of ordering an attack on North Korean nuclear facilities. As all sides were acutely aware, such an air raid had the potential for triggering a devastating full-scale war on the peninsula.

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