LOS ANGELES (AP) In cafes, restaurants and barbershops across the city's vast Koreatown, the conversations Monday centered on one will happen next.
worry about what it could mean for relatives back home.
Koreatown.
"The war in Iraq was enough, and now who knows what the United States will do to North Korea."
Nearly 200,000 Koreans live in Los Angeles, according to the U.S.
Census, by far the largest grouping of America's intimately connected to their homeland.
heard, televisions beamed images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and of exploding atomic bombs.
"North Korea Actually Tests Nuclear Weapon," and "Korean Peninsula Quickly Freezing and the Future is Uncertain.
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"This makes you feel scared," said Mingee Park, 18, eating and talking about the nuclear test with three friends.
Park, who moved here from South Korea five months ago to study at a community college, said the possibility of for young men.
"It's something all men have to do, but I'm worried about doing it now," said Park, who planned to do his service when he turns 21.
Others were sharply critical of President Bush, arguing his economic sanctions.
"If the U.S.
had better diplomacy, instead of always just threatening, we could have been looking at a much activist whose family immigrated when she was 9. "Maybe North Korea felt it was the last button they had left to push."
in 2003 after U.
S. officials accused it of a secret nuclear program.
U.
S. Ambassador John Bolton said Washington would now seek even stiffer U.N.
sanctions against North Korea.
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