Bush's July trip to South Korea called off

Wiser heads in Herr Bush's entourage have prevailed. He won't be going to Seoul to say a fond farewell as president of the US and big white brother of South Korea. South Korea is now going to let US beef to be sold on the Korean market place, which will pump more blood in angry South Koreans who have been demonstrating for the last almost 50 days, and calling of president Lee Myung bak's resignation. Lee isolated behind a wall of cargo containers and buses is beginning to show the demostrators that he has had enough. Is his backbone stiffening with encouragement of US advise? So 18Brumaire won't be surprised by pictures of tear gas canisters launched on crowds, nor baton wielding police and even military. Lee has tried apologising and appeasing the demonstrators; his tack didn't work, so it's bare knuckles time now in the streets of Seoul. Will that help Lee? Maybe yes, maybe no. Will his Grand National Party [GNP] back him up wholeheartedly? Maybe yes, maybe no. Lee is deaf to what is happening on the streets of Seoul; he's shuffled his cabinet but replaced them with the same thick heads he removed; he believes in an iron fist approach without a velvet glove, and as such, turmoil will rule the streets of Seoul, it seems. Lee has proven himself as an inexperienced pol even though he was mayor of Seoul, and as such, he will employ methods which will further isolate himself from his people, but not from his cheer leaders in the US. So for a while he will limp along, but the volatility in the markets, rising fuel prices, and rising inflation, sooner or later will be his downfall, and the GNP has a candidate in the wings ready to take over. As for Herr Bush, he's not welcome in South Korea.