IHT: News analysis: Call it imperialism or... -
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Published on: 4/14/2003
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With eyes on another potential crisis, an influential South Korean commentator, Kim Young Hie, the foreign affairs columnist for JoonAng Ilbo, worries that American success in Iraq will backfire when it comes to North Korea. ."For Pyongyang, Iraq was the second shock and awe after Afghanistan," he wrote."When Bush is determined to do something, he just goes ahead.And America undoubtedly has the military prowess to carry out his will.This message is sinking in with Kim Jong Il." .German officials hope not that American power will be reduced, but that it can be curbed through reintegration into a newly built international system.Publicly and privately, they say that American power is indispensable.It is the unilateral use of that power, or, as some call it, its imperial use, that has divided the alliance and alienated large majorities of European public opinion.
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With eyes on another potential crisis, an influential South Korean commentator, Kim Young Hie, the foreign affairs columnist for JoonAng Ilbo, worries that American success in Iraq will backfire when it comes to North Korea. ."For Pyongyang, Iraq was the second shock and awe after Afghanistan," he wrote."When Bush is determined to do something, he just goes ahead.And America undoubtedly has the military prowess to carry out his will.This message is sinking in with Kim Jong Il." .German officials hope not that American power will be reduced, but that it can be curbed through reintegration into a newly built international system.Publicly and privately, they say that American power is indispensable.It is the unilateral use of that power, or, as some call it, its imperial use, that has divided the alliance and alienated large majorities of European public opinion.
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With eyes on another potential crisis, an influential South Korean commentator, Kim Young Hie, the foreign affairs columnist for JoonAng Ilbo, worries that American success in Iraq will backfire when it comes to North Korea. ."For Pyongyang, Iraq was the second shock and awe after Afghanistan," he wrote."When Bush is determined to do something, he just goes ahead.And America undoubtedly has the military prowess to carry out his will.This message is sinking in with Kim Jong Il." .German officials hope not that American power will be reduced, but that it can be curbed through reintegration into a newly built international system.Publicly and privately, they say that American power is indispensable.It is the unilateral use of that power, or, as some call it, its imperial use, that has divided the alliance and alienated large majorities of European public opinion.
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With eyes on another potential crisis, an influential South Korean commentator, Kim Young Hie, the foreign affairs columnist for JoonAng Ilbo, worries that American success in Iraq will backfire when it comes to North Korea. ."For Pyongyang, Iraq was the second shock and awe after Afghanistan," he wrote."When Bush is determined to do something, he just goes ahead.And America undoubtedly has the military prowess to carry out his will.This message is sinking in with Kim Jong Il." .German officials hope not that American power will be reduced, but that it can be curbed through reintegration into a newly built international system.Publicly and privately, they say that American power is indispensable.It is the unilateral use of that power, or, as some call it, its imperial use, that has divided the alliance and alienated large majorities of European public opinion.