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Beijing has suffered serious collateral damage in the wake of Pyongyang’s attack on South Korea last week. Despite the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration’s generous material and moral support, the Kim Jong-Il regime has refused to mend its roguish ways. North Korea’s shelling of Yeonpyeong Island—which came on the heels of Pyongyang’s admission that it had built a new uranium enrichment facility equipped with 2,000 centrifuges—has exacerbated Beijing’s nightmare scenario, that is, the consolidation of the military alliance between the United States and Asian allies such as South Korea and Japan. Hawkish elements in South Korea and Japan are also...

The link is to this evening's top Korean-language Chosun Ilbo story in Seoul, South (Good) Korea. It states that after the Communist North under Kim Jong il had attacked the South at Yeongpyungdo (island) with rockets and howitzers last Tuesday, the patriotic ferver and anger has increased greatly in the South, and the most immediate manifestation is the soaring young recruits signing up to join the South Korean (R.O.K.) Marines, since it was two Marines who had been killed in the North shelling.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is prepared to “evacuate all” 60,000 Filipinos in South Korea “if and when needed,” Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Esteban Conejos said Wednesday. “Everything is in place. We have an updated plan that addresses the security contingent arising in Korea. We will evacuate all if and when needed,” he said in a phone interview with INQUIRER.net. The constant tension in the Korean Peninsula starting with the North Korea’s nuclear testing about two years ago prompted the Philippine government to draw up a plan that includes mobilizing its “extensive network” of Filipino community leaders...