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• Don’t Discount the Need for Korean Union

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:57 pm

  Tags: Military, East Asia, Politics, Usa, Asia, Bruce Klinger, Gnp, Lee Myung Bak, North Korea, Rok, South Korea, The Heritage Foundation

  I have only one problem with Bruce Klinger’s otherwise informative backgrounder on South Korean politics: Klinger fails to recognize the ways in which Korean unification will affect ROK-US relations. I don’t think he recognizes how much some sort of inter-Korean economic community is more important for Seoul than it is for the US, or

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• The Truth about US Beef Protests Is in Busan

  Published: June 9, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Globalization, Politics, Usa, Beef, Bse, Busan, Gnp, Hanwoo, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Mad Cow, Rok

  TMH is not the comments section one needs to go, to learn about anti-US beef protests in ROK. But, to the proprietor's credit, two contributors have come forward with political and economic opinions on the protests that aren't just crowd-pleasing brickbats. I'm relieved Drambuie Man came out of his coma to talk about culture and economics. So

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• Arab and Muslim Economies Still Suck While Awash in Oil

  Published: June 15, 2008, 10:56 am

  Tags: Arabs, Muslims, Dutch Disease, Economy, Gdp, Gnp, Growth Rate, Gulf States, Middle East, North Sea, Oil, Petrodollars, Productivity

  The Middle East is accustomed to depressing news. Usually it comes with the sounds of bombs and artillery or with the crack of an assassin’s bullet. But the worst news of the week came in almost silently, in the bleak numbers of accountants’ reports. How could this be, in a region where the oil price is soaring unbelievably high,

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