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North Korean army takes Seoul hostage.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 958 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: North Korean army takes Seoul hostage.(Pacific Perspectives)

Article Excerpt
Hostage theory in international relations can explain why a lot of things do not happen.

There's no better example than the North Korean crisis. The reason for continuing to talk to the North Koreans is not that we like them; it's that we care about the South Koreans.

Some officials in the Bush administration would be happy to firebomb Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, back to before the Stone Age (this extremely under-developed country is barely in the economic Stone Age even now). It wouldn't take all that much, actually; the United States already has the power in place within that theater to do the job.

But that's not going to happen, and for a very simple reason: Seoul, the sprawling capital of South Korea, is being held hostage.

The hostage-taker is the enormous army of North Korea. Seoul is a short...

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