South Korea’s President Roh Moo-huyn’s reliance on engagement with communist North Korea has restrained the White House’s ability to pursue a unilateral policy of “neo-containment”, writes Dr Sharif Shuja.It is an historical irony that the most reclusive country of Northeast Asia has become the epicentre of strategic concern, both regionally and globally, and poses a strategic challenge to the most powerful nation on earth, the United States.This is a paradox. How can a “failed state”, such as N…
