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Article: South Korea comes of age.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 28, 1986
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PRIME MINISTER Shinyong Lho is a soft-spoken, reflective man. Talking to a group of American columnists and editorial-page editors, he is eager to affirm the solidity of U.S.-Korean relations. "They are so good!" he says with a warm and open smile. It is important to him, as it has been to every high-ranking Korean official who has spoken to us, to make this point. Korea's future would be murky indeed without a strong American commitment not only to the defense of Korea, but to free trade, without which the growing Korean economy would be humbled.
Move up to the demilitarized zone, a strip of land separatig the Communist North fromt the Republic of Korea. The ...