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Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Related Articles - Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq - Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands - An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism - Korea Reaffirms Decision to Send Troops to Iraq - Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage - Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage - Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body - Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31 Korean Internet users are split between those wanting to take reprisals for the killing of Kim Sun-il in Iraq and those...

Japan Raises Security Amid Troop Dispatch Saturday February 21, 2004 2:16 AM By KENJI HALL Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) - Japan tightened security at hundreds of airports, nuclear plants and government facilities Friday, dispatching armed riot police to guard against possible terror attacks as the country dispatches troops on a humanitarian mission to Iraq. A National Police Agency official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the heightened security but refused to say whether the government had new information about a possible terror strike. He said it was the highest show of security in Japan since the U.S.-led invasion of...

SOUTH KOREA, US Talk on Speedy Troop Dispatch By Shim Jae-yoon and Seo Soo-min, Staff Reporters --15 December 2003 (Hankook Ilbo Daily, Seoul, Korea)The (S. Korean) government, driven by the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, started consultations with the United States in order to speed up the dispatch of troops to Iraq. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday (Dec. 15) called S. Korean Foreign Affairs-Trade Minister Yoon Young-kwan to say that the capture of Saddam Hussein will positively influence South Korea's dispatch of troops to Iraq. In the telephone call made early in the morning,...

US Asks S. Korea for Thousands of Soldiers By Seo Soo-min Staff Reporter The United States has asked South Korea for a light infantry division consisting of at least some 2,000-3,000 soldiers to keep the peace in Iraq, citing the Polish Division in Iraq as an example, a senior government official said yesterday. ``The United States has asked for a division of light infantry soldiers capable of operating on a self-sustainable basis,’’ the official said. He added there was no mention of the exact size, although the Polish Division was mentioned as a likely model. The request was made by...