President Roh focuses on domestic issues and tries to ignore the threat from the North. Now the U.S. is planning to move U.S. troops away from the DMZ, and possibly withdraw totally from South Korea. It will be a less sustainable position to blame the U.S. for North Korea's misbehavior when U.S. troops are withdrawn. The U.S. primary focus should be containment and prevention of North Korean proliferation, while waiting for the North to collapse due to its own self destructive behavior. It is impossible to "put the Nuclear Genie back in the bottle" in the case of North Korea, and the Cold War is over, so reasons for maintaining U.S. forces there are no longer justifiable. China, Russia, and South Korea are not very helpful, but this is their regional problem, and perhaps U.S. withdrawal will make that more apparent.

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