You know, President Bush and President Roh Moo-hyun aren't always in perfect sync on North Korea.
Three of those they have investigated are former aides of the president, Roh Moo-hyun.
She also reported live from Seoul on the funeral of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun.
President-elect Roh Moo-hyun is to be inaugurated in February, and Mr Koizumi is considering attending the ceremony.
The Uri party, which supports South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun, won a majority in the national assembly.
Opinion in South Korea is notoriously fickle, as those who remember Roh Moo-hyun's upset victory in 2002 will attest.
Officials and dignitaries gathered in Seoul's Kyungbok Palace to honor former President Roh Moo-Hyun, who committed suicide last week.
Meanwhile, South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun spent the day conferring with top advisers.
Roh Moo-hyun, the South's current president, has thrown his personal weight behind abolition.
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South Korea's president, Roh Moo-hyun, was elected in 2002 after flirting with the anti-American sentiment popular among South Korea's younger voters.
President Bush also responded to detractors during a joint news conference Thursday with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in Gyeongju, South Korea.
He was a chief of staff to Mr Lee's predecessor, Roh Moo-hyun, who killed himself in 2009 while under investigation for corruption.
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Fifty-six year-old Roh Moo-hyun is from the same political party as 77 year-old outgoing president Kim Dae-jung.
On Monday, Mr Bush issued a joint statement with Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea's president, calling for the six-way talks to be resumed.
After 2008, however, its biggest attraction was Roh Moo-hyun, the former president.
For a start, the government claims that 80% of the files relate to investigations ordered by the previous administration of President Roh Moo-hyun (who committed suicide in 2009).
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In South Korea, attempts to remove Roh Moo-hyun have backfired catastrophically: a brand-new party loyal to Mr Roh has seized a majority in the country's parliament (see article).
On February 25th, Roh Moo-hyun will be inaugurated as South Korea's president at what is starting to look like one of the bleaker moments in his country's history since 1953, when the Korean war ended.
But rapprochement talks between the countries hit a wall after conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008, with a tougher stance toward the North than Kim and his successor, Roh Moo-hyun.
Parallels exist between South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun and Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president of the late 1970s, the latest being the extraordinary repudiation of Roh's Uri party in city and provincial elections at the end of May.
Seoul is guided by its left-wing, appeasement-minded president, Roh Moo Hyun, and the vested interests of roughly ten publicly traded South Korean firms led by Hyundai.
By 11 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2002, exit poll results showed that the iconoclastic Roh Moo Hyun, 56, a 2-to-1 favorite among youth, was losing the election.
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