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| | Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South |
 | | This Thursday and Friday in Washington, meanwhile, South Korea and the US have been holding their eighth round of talks on the future of the alliance and on moving the Yongsan garrison out of Seoul, where its presence is deeply resented. |
 | | South Korea is investing great sums in certain limited but high-profile military platforms, including advanced US F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft, and has ambitious plans to construct by 2012 a naval fleet of six 4,200-ton destroyers, three 7,000-ton destroyers and state-of-the-art submarines, all with the most advanced US Aegis combat systems and stealth technology. |
 | | The primary impediments to peninsular and regional peace are the nation's leadership and its less-than-balanced politics of rapprochement with North Korea, which focus primarily on mitigating the symptoms of the Korean Cold War without formulating policies that address the Pyongyang personalities who have a vested interest in prolonging the conflict. |
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