by PETER LEE
Mr Lee Myung-bak was Hyundai’s youngest-ever chief executive BBC
Who is the most dangerous man on the Korean Peninsula? Maybe it’s not Kim Jung-il, but South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak.
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It appears that Lee’s dream involves unifying the entire peninsula and its population of 75 million under the banner of the democratic, capitalist South in alliance with the United States, replacing Japan as the primary US security and economic partner, and confronting China with the prospect of a major pro-Western power on its doorstep while reaching out to the sizable Korean minority in China’s northeastern provinces.
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The conventional view is that reunification at this point in the North’s wayward economic development would place an unacceptable burden on the South. On the other hand, Lee has in the past shopped the idea that North Korean
minerals and cheap labor could completely fund reunification.
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