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/begin my excerpt Armitage, "N. Korea to Push Ahead with Nuclear Test This Year" (Washington = Yonhap News) Cho Bok-rae = Richard Armitage, the former Deputy Secretary of State, commented on Sept. 21, "N. Korea will push ahead with nuclear test this year. If it happens, everything including the issue of wartime command control would be brought back to square one, and reevaluated," according to a lawmaker of Hannara Party(conservative opposition) visiting U.S. Mr. Armitage gave his view, saying that it is his personal opinion, while meeting some lawmakers from Hannara delegation made up of Lee Sang-deuk, Vice Chairman of...

S. Korea: Huge Conservative Rally Is Back On Sept. 2, there was a huge rally organized by conservative groups. Veteran's organizations and Protestant church groups made up the back bone of the rally. It was to oppose government's hasty drive to dismantle joint wartime command, which was on the N. Korea's longtime wish list. What is noticeable this time is that sizable number of opposition conservative lawmakers joined the rally. In the past, only a couple of lawmakers attended. This time some two dozen showed up. Presidential hopeful, Park Geun-hye, the former head of opposition Grand National Party, and Lee...