Kim's Plans Don't Impress Taegu South Korean City Puts Regional Matters First, Last and Foremost

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 12, 2000| Author: Don Kirk | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

04-12-2000

The old man crooked his elbows and cocked his trigger finger, as if to fire on an unseen enemy. ''Communists,'' he spat out when asked about the people in the Cholla region in the southwestern corner of the Korean Peninsula. ''They are all communists.'' Not everyone in this city in the heart of the southeastern region is quite so blunt, but it is difficult to find anyone here with a good word to say for their neighbors just a coup...

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