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Article: A New Kind of Pride; The president's anti-Japanese tirades play well with his core supporters. But a new neocon movement is arguing for greater openness to the world.
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- Newsweek International
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- May 8, 2006
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Byline: B. J. Lee
South Korean president Roh Moo Hyun minced no words in his tirade against Japan last week. Angered by Japanese moves to survey a contested range of islets currently occupied by Korea, he blasted Tokyo for essentially reaffirming "Japan's criminal history of waging wars ... as well as 40 years of exploitation, torture, imprisonment, forced labor and even sexual slavery." The comments drove relations between the neighbors to a new low--and, more to the point, scored Roh points with his young and intensely nationalistic core supporters.
Roh needs all the help he can get, with his Uri party expected to perform poorly in this month's local ...