Although there been considerable agitation among South Korea’s extreme right wing on the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak to start a nuclear development program or seek to provoke the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang, it is unrealistic in the wake of the death of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il last Saturday to believe the Lee government would or should do either one.
South Korea's Options
Although there been considerable agitation among South Korea’s extreme right wing on the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak to start a nuclear development program or seek to provoke the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang, it is unrealistic in the wake of the death of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il last Saturday to believe the Lee government would or should do either one.
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