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Some 30 percent of Korean Americans think that different views held by South Korea and the U.S. on North Korea are the biggest problem threatening the South Korea-U.S. alliance, a poll has found.
The U.S. foreign policy think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies surveyed 446 Korean Americans in 22 U.S. states last year with the support of the Korea Foundation. The CSIS announced the results of the survey at the Hyatt Hotel in Seoul on Wednesday.
As threats to the South Korea-U.S. alliance, respondents cited former liberal president Roh Moo-hyun and his government's political leadership, the U.S.' disregard for South Korea, and the U.S. political leadership.
About half of respondents (47 percent) said that the alliance is only moderately strong, while 28 percent said the alliance is weak and 27 percent said it is strong enough.
More than half of respondents (58 percent) said that the North poses a major or fatal threat to the South. But 75 percent said that the communist country is not a threat to the U.S.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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