Bush, “I Will Support to Punish the Terror in Bali.”

Because of a bomb terror in Bali, Indonesia, a ‘terror emergency’ has been declared in the whole world.

Leaders of countries including America and the UK criticized the bomb terror and announced to strongly react to terror through cooperation against terror.

The US President George W. Bush said through a statement on the 13th, “This terror incident was a mean murder toward innocent people,” and “America will not hesitate to support the efforts of Indonesia to put the criminals at the judgment of justice.”

The Australian Prime Minister John Howard called the National Security Meeting on the 14th and decided to strongly react to this terror, and he declared the day as a ‘National Grief Day.’

He proposed to send an investigation team that day saying that some high-ranking officials including the Foreign Minister Alexander Downer would go to Indonesia and discuss ways to support to capture the terrorist. The British Prime Minister Toni Blair also suggested sending the terror investigation team to Indonesian Government.

Each country, in addition to this, issued a warning alert to visit Indonesia.

The US Department of State insisted American citizens in Indonesia to leave the country and issued an emergency watch alert to the US legations. The UK, the

Netherlands, New Zealand, and Japan also issued a warning alert to their people.

Especially the South East Asian countries including the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia went to an emergency watch against possible additional terror incidents in their countries.

In the meantime, the Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri said on the 14th, “This terror is a crime against humanism,” and “we will deal with the terrorist severely.” The Indonesian Government issued a special watch alert in response to the intelligence that the American gas and oil companies in the country could be targets for terror attack.

The Indonesian Government announced that as of the 14th, at least 188 people were killed and 309 were injured by this terror incident. Around 90 people of the survivors are severely injured.

Whether the sisters Moon, Eun-Young (31. female) and Eun-Jung (29), the missing Koreans after the explosion in Bali, were dead or alive was not known until the 14th, which was the 3rd day of missing.

Ki-Tae Kwon kkt@donga.com