Exploitation Watch
Civic groups are demanding that Korea take over prosecution of the U.S. military driver whose truck killed a 51-year-old yogurt delivery woman in Dongducheon last month. An “emergency committee” including the Dongducheon Civil Association and the National Campaign for Eradication of Crime by U.S. Troops in Korea held a press conference in front of the government complex in Gwacheon on Monday to urge the Justice Ministry to wrest the investigation from U.S. military authorities.
It will be interesting to see how Roh reacts to this, in light of his weakness in the Assembly, the divisions in his own cabinet, and nascent signs of a GNP resurgence. It’s not entirely clear whether Roh has much control over his own base. What’s less clear is whether Roh has any motivation to control anti-Americanism that could again prove a convenient distractor and galvanizer of the least deliberative members of the Korean public.
If you want to talk truck accidents, someone ought to look into the one listed here. This one seems decidedly less accidental. I still have no idea what happened to those struck.