North Korea a Danger to Region
The six-party talks on North Korea – involving the United States, South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan and Russia – slated to begin Aug. 27 in Beijing reflect global public concern that the regime in Pyongyang poses a serious threat to Asian stability. But U.S. efforts to defuse the North Korean crisis take place against a backdrop of rising anti-Americanism in South Korea and occur at a time when fewer South Koreans show concern about the threat posed by their northern neighbor than do Americans, Australians and many Europeans.
North Korea a Danger to Region  | (May Danger 2003)  | Australia  | 39  | 40  | United States  | 38  | 39  | Germany  | 37  | 40  | 31  | Great Britain  | 40  | Canada  | 33  | 37  | South Korea  | 28  | France  | 18  | 38  | Indonesia  | 14  | 25  | Russia  | 12  | Great danger Moderate danger 