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06SEOUL1855 2006-06-05 07:54 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Seoul
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UNCLAS  SEOUL 001855 
 
 
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E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US
SUBJECT: PRESS BULLETIN - JUNE 5, 2006 
 
EDITORIALS/OPINIONS 
1.  How Far Will Seoul Be Swayed By Pyongyang and 
    Washington? (Dong-a Ilbo) 
2.   A Collapse is Also an Option at the FTA Talks 
   (Hankyoreh Shinmun) 
 
FEATURES 
3.  Joint Chiefs of Staffs Report: "ROK-U.S. Combined Forces 
    Command to Be Dissolved in 2012" (Chosun Ilbo) 
4.  If U.S. Pressure on North Korea Increases, Pyongynag 
    Could Test Fire Missile (Dong-a Ilbo) 
5.  Rumsfeld to North: Follow Libya (JoongAng Ilbo) 
6.  Seoul Does Not Send Military Force to Khaan Quest 
    (JoongAng Ilbo) 
7.  Korea, U.S. Mulling Halfway House for Wartime Control 
    (Digital Chosun) 
8.  Four Out of Ten South Koreans Support ROK-U.S. FTA (KBS) 
9.  Korean Trade Protesters Arrive in U.S. (Dong-a Ilbo) 
 
TOP HEADLINES 
 
Chosun Ilbo 
ROK-US COMBINED FORCES COMMAND TO BE DISBANDED IN 2012 
 
JoongAng Ilbo 
RULING URI PARTY ANGERED BY PRESIDENT ROH'S ELECTION-RELATED 
REMARKS; REBUKING HIS ECONOMIC POLICY FAILURE AND MULLING A 
BREAK-UP WITH HIM 
 
Dong-a Ilbo 
PRESIDENT HOPEFUL GOH KUN: "I WILL NOT JOIN HANDS WITH 
EXISTING PARTIES" 
 
Hankook Ilbo, Hankyoreh Shinmun, Segye Ilbo, Seoul Shinmun 
RULING URI PARTY RAPIDLY UNRAVELS IN POST-ELECTION SHOCK 
 
DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS 
 
1 According to a military source on June 3, the ROK has 
  decided to send 5 observers, not military troops, to the 
  2006 "Khaan Quest" exercise, a multilateral peace-keeping 
  training, to be held in Mongolia in coming August, as was 
  suggested at the 8th ROK-U.S. Security Policy Initiative 
  in Hawaii on May 25. (JoongAng) 
2  The ROK military is reportedly looking for a strategic 
  timeframe to dismantle the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces 
  Command headquarters in 2012, and, accordingly, the 
  return of wartime control of its military from the U.S. 
  is expected to come in no later than 2011, according to 
  an ROK military official who cited a Joint Chiefs of 
  Staff document on June 4. (Chosun) 
3  With the first round of the ROK-U.S. FTA talks scheduled 
  from June 5 - 9, on June 3, about 160 members of a 
  government negotiation team and also an anti-negotiation 
  protest expedition arrived in Washington D.C. together. 
  (Dong-a, Seoul, Segye, KBS, MBC, SBS, OhmyNews, Preesian, 
  TongilNews) 
4  According to a poll commissioned by the Chosun Ilbo to 
  the Korea Gallop on June 3, a total of 84.6% out of 1022 
  Koreans held President Roh responsible for the loss of 
  ruling Uri Party with 49.3% seeing President Roh greatly 
  responsible and 35.3% saying he is responsible to some 
  extent. (Chosun) 
5  In a meeting between ROK Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung 
   and his U.S. counterpart on the sideline of the fifth 
   Asia Security Conference on June 3, the two sides agreed 
   to take step-by-step measures for the ROK to retrieve 
   wartime control of its armed forces from the U.S. 
   (Chosun, Hankook, Seoul, Segye, KBS, MBc, SBS, 
   TongilNews) 
 
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
 
1  U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, urged North 
   Korea to follow the "Libyan example" in a speech on 
   Saturday at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue defense forum 
   in Singapore.  The future of the Pacific Rim, said Mr. 
   Rumsfeld, will depend on the path North Korea takes _ 
   whether it continues to repress its people and threaten 
   its neighbors, or follows Libya's example that "leads 
   back to membership in the community of nations." 
 
   (JoongAng, MBC) 
2  In a sign of the USG facing a growing pressure from 
   Congress, Inside US Trade, a trade magazine, reported on 
   June 2 that ranking House representatives from the U.S. 
   Democratic Party had sent a letter to President Bush on 
   May 26 "calling for an unexceptional removal of trade 
   barriers on ROK auto market, banking, insurance, 
   medicine, and communications, or the USG would face a 
   fierce resistance from the Congress against the ROK-U.S. 
   FTA." (Hankyoreh, MBC) 
3  North Korea's submarine warfare capacity has increased 
   dramatically and the number of its troops under arms has 
   been reduced, according to a report called "Military 
   Balance 2006" by the International Institute for 
   Strategic Studies based in Britain. (JoongAng, Chosun) 
4  A report titled "Suggestions for ROK-U.S. FTA" released 
   by the U.S. Congressional Research Service prior to the 
   first round of FTA talks predicted that the trade talks 
   could flounder in the face of the unification of anti- 
   American forces in the ROK and also face difficulty 
   getting ratified at the ROK parliament as President Roh 
   would go through a lame duck phase. (Segye) 
 
 
EDITORIALS/OPINIONS 
 
1.  How Far Will Seoul Be Swayed By Pyongyang and 
Washington? 
(Dong-a Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Page 30) 
 
By Koh Yu-hwan, Professor of North Korean Studies at Dongkuk 
University 
 
The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) 
announced on June 1 that the LWR project in Shinpo, South 
Hankyung Province, came to an end.  The reason why the 1994 
Geneva Agreed Framework ended in failure was that North 
Korea tried to grasp at too much.  After getting what it 
wanted by using a freeze on nuclear development as a 
bargaining chip, Pyongyang took out another bargaining card 
of missile launch and pushed for its nuclear program based 
upon highly enriched uranium, which brought all efforts back 
to the starting point.  A change in U.S. policy towards the 
North also played its role.  During the Clinton 
administration, there was a point of convergence between 
Washington's strategy to involve itself in Pyongyang and 
North Korea's survival strategy.  However, after George W. 
Bush was inaugurated, the U.S. global strategy began 
conflicting with Pyongyang's survival strategy, which has 
been prolonging discords between the two nations.  The ROKG 
is also to blame.  Although Seoul was completely ignored 
when the Geneva Agreed Framework was adopted, it agreed to 
share 70% of the costs of constructing light-water nuclear 
reactors in North Korea.  The ROKG should reflect whether or 
not it has yielded to U.S. demand without any say over the 
project. 
 
The "mutual" framework of the Geneva Agreed Framework has 
now been expanded into the "multilateral" framework of the 
Six-Party Talks.  Without any high-ranking talks between the 
North and the U.S., no progress willt be made in resolving 
the North Korean nuclear issue.  In order to resume the 
stalled nuclear talks, it is desirable for a U.S. chief 
negotiator to the Six-Party Talks to accept an invitation by 
the North and pay a visit to Pyongyang. 
 
 
2.  A Collapse is Also an Option at the FTA Talks 
(Hankyoreh Shinmun, June 5, 2006, Page 27) 
 
Amid concerns, the first round of the ROK-U.S. FTA talks 
will open today in Washington.  The outcome of the talks, if 
things go awry, could potentially further divide the country 
by widening the rift between different interests. 
Therefore, the negotiation delegates must feel a tremendous 
sense of responsibility.  If they continue to be submissive 
to the U.S. side as they were when meeting a series of U.S. 
demands including a cut in screen quota even before sitting 
down at the table, they would face disastrous consequences. 
 
An FTA statement drafted by the U.S. has caused some 
 
optimists to flinch while adding fresh concerns to those who 
are already deeply-concerned.  U.S. demands are not merely 
restricted to the financial sector where the U.S. called for 
some new services to be introduced, but wide-ranging in 
their scope and topic encompassing taxation, legislation and 
the public sector.  The U.S. also seeks to set aside 
agriculture and textile and pay special attention to the 
segments.  As for the drugs, even some in the ROKG are 
worried that accepting U.S. demands will shake a key pricing 
vehicle of the national health insurance.  All in all, the 
U.S. draft statement on FTA contains a wide range of tough 
demands, a lot tougher than we have anticipated. 
 
The remark by ROK chief FTA negotiator Kim Jong-hun "We will 
do our best to make sure that the first round of the talks 
will produce a balanced outcome acceptable to both sides" 
remains largely untrustworthy.  It is not because we are 
blindly concerned but because the ROKG has failed to win the 
trust of the ROK people.  With the conclusion of the deal 
upheld as the one and only goal of the talks, the ROKG has 
already given up substantial leverage to put itself on an 
equal footing with the U.S. 
 
Numbers do not help at this point, but, instead, an argument 
made by a senior economist that a small country's attempt to 
integrate with the world's most powerful country could wind 
up being suicidal and risky and seriously damage the 
country's global standing resonates better with us.  A free 
trade accord with the U.S. is not the only path lying ahead 
of us, nor is it the path we should take in such a hurried 
manner.  The ROK must clearly convey its positions to the 
U.S., and then it should show a firm stance that if these 
demands encounter a dead end it will walk away.  If the U.S. 
refuses to accept our views, we can slow down our pace. 
First impressions are important more than anything else, 
because if you appear weak the other side will try to push 
you around.  Also some back-up plans are needed to minimize 
the after-shock in case the talks collapse. 
 
 
FEATURES 
 
3.  Joint Chiefs of Staffs Report: "ROK-U.S. Combined Forces 
Command to Be Dissolved in 2012" 
(Chosun Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Front Page) 
 
By Reporter Jang Il-hyun 
 
The ROK military was found to be looking for a strategic 
timeframe to dismantle the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command 
(CFC) in 2012, and the return of wartime control of its 
armed forces from the U.S. is expected to happen no later 
than 2011.  The ROK-U.S. alliance which was bound over the 
course of bloodshed during the 1950 Korean War will 
supposedly undergo a seismic change in its structure and 
format. 
 
An ROK military source said on June 4, "A key document of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staffs on military strategies clarly 
points to 2012 as the time when the ROK-U.S. CFC will be 
disbanded and plans to restructure the ROK military will 
proceed accordingly." 
 
The document the source refers to is a first-class military 
report that is upgraded every three years entitled "Joint 
Military Strategy (JMS)." All the operations and 
organizations of the ROK military are drawn on this JMS 
report and so are mid-term defense plans.  The part about 
"the dissolution of the bilateral CFC" is reportedly 
included in the "Future Direction of the ROK Military 
Structure". 
 
"The year 2012 is the time when the concept of "cooperative 
and independent defense" relentlessly pushed by President 
Roh will be complete and the dismantlement of the ROK-U.S. 
CFC following the return of the wartime control will put the 
finishing touches on the plan," said the source. 
 
What kind of form the ROK-U.S. military alliance will take 
in wake of the removal of the CFC remains unclear.  Some 
possible ideas include: a) the ROK and the U.S. will likely 
 
join the further strengthened UN Command and b) a more 
cooperative system will be introduced where the armed forces 
of both countries support and complement each other's 
combatant capabilities while independently keeping their own 
operational and command rights. 
 
Most military experts foresee that the ROK military's 
regaining its wartime control will probably come ahead of 
the breakup of the ROK-U.S. CFC.  ROK Defense Minister Yoon 
Kwang-ung repeatedly said, "Making preparations for the 
return will take about five years at the least."   Another 
military source said, "Preparing for the regain is in its 
final stage, so, only if the ROK and the U.S. reach an 
agreement on this, this could happen right away.  Some 
military officials put the timeline for the return around 
2011-2012. 
 
 
4.  If U.S. Pressure on North Korea Increases, Pyongynag 
Could Test Fire Missile 
(Dong-a Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Page 2) 
 
By Reporter Lee Myung-gun and Washington Correspondent Kim 
Seung-ryun 
 
It was learned on June 2 that the ROKG understood if U.S. 
pressure on North Korea builds up, Pyongyang could test-fire 
Taepo dong-1 or 2 missiles. 
 
This judgment was reportedly based upon photographs of 
Musudan-ri, Hwadae county in North Hankyung Province (former 
Daepodong) taken by a U.S. intelligence satellite. 
 
In its analysis of the statement from North Korea that "If 
the U.S. steps up its pressure, we cannot but take a highly 
stringent action," Seoul said the action meant missile 
firing. 
 
Based on this analysis, the ROKG delivered its position to 
the U.S. on June 1 that Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill 
needed to visit North Korea in an attempt to block Pyongyang 
from launching a missile and bring it back to the Six-Party 
Talks. 
 
The Taepo dong-2 missile has a range of 4,300-6,000 
kilometers and its improved model has an estimated range of 
15,000 kilometers covering the U.S. mainland. 
 
On June 1, Ambassador Vershbow appeared on a CBS radio show, 
where he said, "The missile issue is very serious.  Since it 
is related to intelligence, we cannot say whether there will 
be a missile test or not, but it is certain that this is a 
serious problem." 
 
 
5.  Rumsfeld to North: Follow Libya 
(JoongAng Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Page 2) 
 
By Military Affairs Reporter Kim Min-suk 
 
U.S. defense aide also cites Russia and China as problems 
 
The U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, urged North 
Korea to follow the "Libyan example" in a speech on Saturday 
at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue defense forum in 
Singapore. 
 
The future of the Pacific Rim, said Mr. Rumsfeld, will 
depend on the path North Korea takes _ whether it continues 
to repress its people and threaten its neighbors, or follows 
Libya's example that "leads back to membership in the 
community of nations." 
 
Libya agreed to completely scrap its weapons of mass 
destruction program in December 2003 and the United States, 
in return, said it would restore full diplomatic ties with 
the North African country. 
 
Security cooperation among nations in Southeast Asia is 
expanding but could be set back if China, Russia and North 
Korea don't become more open and less threatening, Mr. 
 
Rumsfeld said to delegates from the Asia-Pacific region 
attending the annual conference hosted by the International 
Institute for Strategic Studies. 
 
"The way ahead for other nations will be something that our 
country will watch closely," said Mr. Rumsfeld, citing 
attempts by Russia to restrict the freedom of neighboring 
countries, the continued lack of transparency in China's 
military budget and threats by North Korea to develop 
nuclear weapons.  He also pledged that the United States 
would stay involved in Southeast Asia and pointed to 
improved relations between the United States and Japan, 
India, Indonesia, South Korea and Pakistan. 
 
After the speech, Mr. Rumsfeld met with Seoul's defense 
minister, Yoon Kwang-ung, who was attending the conference 
that started Friday and ended yesterday. 
 
"The two countries reaffirmed that their alliance is 
significant for the stability of the Korean Peninsula and 
for the Northeast Asian region and agreed to make smooth 
progress regarding issues related to the alliance," said 
Kwon An-do, deputy defense minister for policy, who was at 
the meeting. 
6.  Seoul Does Not Send Military Force to Khaan Quest 
(JoongAng Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Page 2) 
 
By Washington Correspondent Kang Chan-ho 
 
A U.S. military source said on June 3 that the ROK would 
send five observers to the "Khaan Quest" exercise, a 
multinational peace-keeping training set to start in 
Mongolia in August. 
 
According to the source, the ROK conveyed this decision to 
the U.S. at the eighth ROK-U.S. Security Policy Initiative 
meeting that was held in Hawaii on May 25. 
 
Washington requested the ROK to send about 150-strong 
military force to the joint military exercise last year. 
After mulling over the request for as long as over half a 
year, however, the ROK has recently decided to dispatch only 
observers. 
 
Behind this decision, Seoul appeared to have been concerned 
that its large-scale participation could provoke Beijing. 
 
But the U.S. military source dismissed this speculation, 
saying, "The U.S. also requested China to join the training 
as an observer, and the exercise has only the purpose of 
maintaining peace." 
 
Seoul has refused to participate in the U.S.-led 
Proliferation Security Initiative exercise before recently 
deciding to "observe" the exercise.  It also declined to 
join the PSI training at the level of maritime police hosted 
by the U.S., Japan and Russia. 
 
 
7.  Korea, U.S. Mulling Halfway House for Wartime Control 
(Digital Chosun, June 5, 2006) 
 
A new combined command structure is being considered where 
the nation's armed forces take charge of ground operations 
and the U.S. Forces Korea of aerial and maritime operations 
in an emergency on the Korean Peninsula, source said.  Under 
the existing command structure, the commander of Combined 
Forces Command (CFC) under U.S. control exercises wartime 
operational control on all ground, maritime and aerial 
operations.  The idea is to strengthen the role of Korea's 
armed forces before full wartime operational is returned. 
 
"Research is being conducted from a variety of viewpoints 
about how to change the roles played by Korea and U.S. 
forces to achieve the most effective operational command in 
the Korean Peninsula theater," a military official said 
Friday.  "Command structures being discussed in the Security 
Policy Initiative meetings between the two allies include 
one where the nation's armed forces control combined ground 
troops and the USFK controls or assists maritime and aerial 
forces." 
 
Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung and his U.S. counterpart 
Donald Rumsfeld will meet on the sidelines of the Asia 
Security Conference in Singapore on Saturday afternoon to 
coordinate opinions about progress. 
 
Meanwhile, North Korea has some 10 more submarines than 
South Korean armed forces believed.  Its artillery corps 
have increased to two.  "The Military Balance 2006" a report 
which compares military capabilities around the world, 
published by the U.K. International Institute for Strategic 
Studies (IISS) estimates that the North has 88 submarines, 
as against the 70 or so Korea's Defense White Paper last 
year indicated. 
 
The IISS report says North Korea possesses 22 1,800-ton 
Romio class subs produced by the former Soviet Union, 21 300- 
ton Shark class subs of the kind that infiltrated waters off 
Gangneung in 1996, and subs smaller than 200-tons.  In 
addition, the North owns several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 
(UAVs) developed in the former Soviet Union, the report 
says. 
 
 
8.  Four Out of Ten South Koreans Support ROK-U.S. FTA 
(KBS, June 4, 2006) 
 
By Reporter Hwang Dong-jin 
 
Anchor:  Today, we have the last part of the series on the 
ROK-U.S. FTA.  According to the outcome of a recent opinion 
poll on the trade pact, supporters somewhat outnumbered 
opponents, and yet many people were reluctant to give their 
opinions, saying that they did not know what the FTA was. 
Hwang Dong-jin reports. 
 
Hwang:  With the ROK-U.S. FTA talks set to start tomorrow, 
supporters are found to outnumber opponents.  According to a 
nationwide survey of 1,000 adults conducted by KBS, 39% 
supported the FTA while 22% objected to the trade deal. 
However, as much as 36% were found to neither support nor 
oppose. 
 
As the reasons to approve the trade pact, 45% of the 
respondents said the FTA would enhance the competitiveness 
of domestic industries, and 31% answered that it would help 
reinvigorate the economy. 
 
Among the opponents, 43% said that if the FTA is concluded, 
the ROK economy could be subordinated to the U.S. influence, 
and 25% responded that Seoul is pushing for the FTA talks in 
great haste. 
 
Asked about the sectors that should be opened, 48% picked 
social services, 37% agriculture, stockbreeding and 
fisheries, and 13% manufacturing industries.  On the 
contrary, 78% and 13% chose agriculture, stockbreeding and 
fisheries, and social services, respectively, as the sectors 
that should stay closed. 
 
Concerning the influence of the ROK-U.S. FTA on the ROK 
society, 51% answered that it would have positive influence 
while 45% said it would have negative impact on the Korean 
society.  Meanwhile, one out of three South Koreans 
responded that they knew little about the ROK-U.S. FTA. 
This survey was commissioned by the KBS News Headquarters to 
the KBS Broadcasting Culture Research Team, which 
interviewed 1,001 adults aged 20 and older across the nation 
by telephone.  The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 
3.1 percent, with 95-percent reliability in its results. 
 
 
9.  Korean Trade Protesters Arrive in U.S. 
(Dong-a Ilbo, June 5, 2006, Page 2) 
 
By Washington Correspondent Kim Seung-ryun 
 
With the opening of the free trade agreement between Korea 
and the U.S. three days ahead, about 160 members of a 
government negotiation team and an anti-negotiation protest 
expedition arrived in Washington D.C. together on June 3. 
 
The first round of the negotiations, which will be held from 
June 5 to June 9, will mainly serve as a chance to find out 
each other's negotiation strategies. 
 
In the first round to be attended by Kim Jong-hun, 
ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and 
U.S. government institutions such as the USTR and the 
Department of State, 22 fields, including agriculture, 
textiles and telecommunications will be discussed.  The U.S. 
negotiation team consists of 60 people. 
 
Choi Seok-young, an economic representative at the Korean 
embassy in the U.S. said in a press conference on June 2, 
"It seems that Korea will mainly focus on the agricultural 
field such as the rice market, and the U.S. will 
aggressively deal with the protection of industrial 
products, such as textiles." 
 
This negotiation team includes professional translators.  An 
official said, "Even though the negotiation team is 
specialized in telecommunications and medicine, we 
intentionally use interpreters in order to have a quiet 
atmosphere and obtain common understanding."  The second 
round will be held in Seoul in July. 
 
Meanwhile, it is said that the protest expedition aimed at 
hampering the FTA between Korea and the U.S. is likely to go 
to New York via a third city, since attempting to  enter 
through the Washington airport,  could create entry 
problems for the protestors. 
 
All 50 of the protesters began to demonstrate in alliance 
with some 100 members of a Korean civic group in the U.S. 
and hundreds of members of ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and 
End Racism) around the White House starting June 4. 
 
An official of the protest expedition said, "Our objective 
is to get across our message that some Koreans are against 
the FTA negotiations.  We will do our best to demonstrate 
peacefully." 
 
In a protest on the same day, some congressmen of the 
Democratic Party, including Dennis Kucinich, also 
participated.  They represented manufacturing unions in the 
U.S. who fear that American jobs will be lost because of 
FTAs. 
 
However, the leadership of the Democratic Party sent a 
letter to George W. Bush last month to urge him to ensure 
that the FTA between Korea and the U.S. make a tangible and 
meaningful approach to the Korean automobile market. 
 
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