December 19, 2007

Hollywood film buff Kim Jong-Il no longer regards the U.S. as ‘sworn enemy’

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, an avid fan of Hollywood movies, does not consider the United States to be a "sworn enemy forever," a North Korean official told a New York seminar last month. The statement, if true, could signal a radical departure from the communist state's ideology, which has vehement anti-Americanism at its core.

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South Korea ends leftward drift with the landslide win by a conservative
Kim Jong-Il greets troops somewhere in N. Korea.     Korea News Service
Vietnamese in Hanoi protest, on Dec. 16, China's claim over two disputed islands in the South China Sea.   AP/Chitose Suzuki

Projecting Chinese power, most recently with Vietnam, is looking like a pattern

The recent unexpectedly ferocious anti-Beijing protests in Hanoi — and in American cities with large Vietnamese communities — due to sovereignty disputes over several South China Sea islets has underscored the dark side of the Chinese Communist Party leadership’s aggressive hard-power projection this past year. Vietnam, which fought a war with China in 1979, last month protested against alleged Chinese violation of its sovereignty over the Paracels Islands during large-scale People’s Liberation Army war games in the South and East China Sea.
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