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align="center" border="3"> <tr> <td class="" valign="top" bordercolor="black" align="left" bgcolor="navajowhite" height="0"> <p align="center"><font size="2"><strong>An ATol Special<br> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030802052810/http://www.atimes.com/koreas/DB21Dg01.html"><strong>Background to a troubled peninsula<br> </strong></a></font><font size="2"> </font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br>   </font> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><font color="white"><strong>A QUESTION OF LEVERAGE</strong> <br> By Jaewoo Choo<br> <br> </font><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EB28Dg01.html"><font color="white">Part 1: China's role in the Korea crisis</font></a><font color="white"> <br> <br> </font><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EC01Dg03.html"><font color="white">Part 2: Sorry, not interested</font></a><font color="white"> <br> <br> </font><a 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<table width="100%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="65%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="64%" valign="top"> <table width="308" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="308"> <div> <font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000" size="3"><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000"><strong>SPEAKING FREELY<br></strong></font><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EH01Dg03.html"><strong>The Panmunjom circus</strong></a> <br> When the Korean War armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, it included a recommendation that a formal peace treaty be struck within three months. Half a century later, although most of the 21 nations that fought to defend South Korea now have diplomatic relations with the North, no such treaty exists. <strong>Tom Tobback</strong> observed the armistice anniversary ceremonies in Panmunjom last weekend and offers his insights. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 31, '03)</font></font><br><br><strong>SPEAKING FREELY</strong></font> <br> <a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG31Dg03.html"><strong>Time for Pyongyang to show the goods</strong></a> <br> Recent events have indicated that North Korea is serious about resolving its standoff with the United States over its alleged nuclear development program. But as long as Pyongyang refuses to back up its nuke claims with evidence, and Washington and Seoul suspect a bluff, no progress will be possible. - <b> Jang Sung-min</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 30, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG26Dg01.html"><strong>Korean War: The problem of memory</strong></a><br>This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the "police action" in Korea that killed about 2 million people. Though remarkably little has been written in half a century about this brutal conflict, its effects are far-reaching - and its inconclusive conclusion, combined with selective memories in Washington and Tokyo, threatens peace to this day. - <b>Yu Bin<br><font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 25, '03)</font></b><br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EG24Ad02.html"><strong>The case for missile defense</strong></a><br>Would a missile defense system be good or bad for Asia? The Atlantic Council of the US sent a panel of experts to the region to find out, and they came back with a cautious, tentative "yes". But that overall, regional answer is very much complicated by specific national concerns. - <b>David Isenberg <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 23, '03)</font></b><br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG22Dg01.html"><strong>US-Korean economic relations still tangled</strong></a><br><img hspace="3" src="/web/20030802052810im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/KWR-logo-tiny.gif" align="left" vspace="2" border="0">The complicated relationships between the United States and South Korea and the problems the two face mean that, two months on, South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun's trip to Washington has produced little of substance. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 21, '03)</font></font><br><br><strong>China and the Korea crisis</strong></font><br>However one wants to slice it, China is an indispensable factor in the ongoing problem of North Korea's nuclear program. <b>Stephen Blank</b> notes that the US, obsessed with terrorists and Iraq, may have made a grave error by failing to see China's crucial role in any East Asia strategy, while <b>Ehsan Ahrari</b> points out that Beijing could as easily be part of the problem as part of the solution. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 18, '03)</font><br><br>   <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030802052810im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG19Dg02.html">The obtuse triangle</a><br>   <img hspace="0" src="/web/20030802052810im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/arrow.gif" border="0"><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG19Dg01.html">America's options</a> <br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG16Dg01.html"><strong>China shows its hand on North Korea</strong></a><br>South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's recent visit to China did little to enhance his country's role as a major player in Northeast Asian security. However, the summit was highly revealing on how China sees its own role on the narrower, but critical, issue of Korean Peninsula security. - <b>Jaewoo Choo <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 15, '03)</font></b><br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EG16Ak03.html"><strong>North Korea plays on watchdogs' impotence</strong></a><br>North Korea is the first regime to learn the lesson from the standoff between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency over Iraq: if you represent a real nuclear threat to the US, you have a better chance of solving bilateral problems not by force, but by negotiation. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 15, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030802052810/http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG15Dg01.html"><strong>Fearful symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang</strong></a> <br> The streets of the two capitals are broad and the buildings monumental, but there is more than appearance that makes the US and North Korean seats of power eerily similar. Obstinacy, unwillingness to compromise, a "military first" policy and a belligerent drive to tear down the painstaking progress of the past are shared traits that have put the Kim and Bush administrations on a collision course. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 14, '03)</font></font></font></font> </font> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="36%" valign="top"> <table width="184" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="center" align="middle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030802052810/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/search.asp" target="_blank"><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030802052810im_/http://atimes.com/atimes//images/search-2.gif" border="0"></a><br> <img height="5" src="/web/20030802052810im_/http://atimes.com/images/f_images/1pix.gif" width="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="51" align="middle" valign="center"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><a 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