[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 72 (Friday, June 10, 1994)]
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                     THE KOREAN PENINSULA SITUATION

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, today's Washington Post has a front-page 
story stating that Japan and China are resisting United States efforts 
to impose sanctions against North Korea.
  Yesterday the Scripps-Howard News Service published a column by B.J. 
Cutler, its chief foreign affairs columnist, which accurately states 
what our position should be. He wrote this:

       Before we take a collision course to armed conflict, a 
     number of issues should be clarified for Americans. How many 
     lives are we prepared to sacrifice given recent trends in 
     South Korea? Seoul is not spending enough on its own defense. 
     Its youth is increasingly anti-American, and its bureaucrats 
     discriminate against the United States in trade.

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       Korea is often described as a dagger pointed at the heart 
     of Japan. Please note, ``at Japan's heart.'' Not America's 
     heart. What is Japan going to do militarily if the peninsula 
     erupts? In Korea and in World War I, the answer is: Nothing, 
     except to profit by selling supplies to the American people.
       Can the American people trust President Clinton and his 
     team, who have shown modest diplomatic and military skills, 
     to effectively wage a land, naval and air war in Asia? The 
     United States should stop boasting that it is ``the only 
     superpower'' and ``the leader of the free world''; it should 
     convene a conference of the foreign and defense ministers of 
     Russia, China, Japan and South Korea to gain their advice. We 
     should say, ``It's your neighborhood, you know North Korea 
     better than we do. What should be done? What will you do?'' 
     And, for once, we should listen.

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