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...defectors like Kang Chol Hwan, who spent a decade as a boy in one of North Korea's most notorious camps for political prisoners, the conditions of the journalists' imprisonment could be brutal. The Administration is considering whether sending a special envoy to Pyongyang would help. Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, who has traveled to Pyongyang on special diplomatic missions, said recently, "Now is when the negotiating really begins." (Read "Your Move, China...
...reminder of the frustrations of his old job--and the perils attending his new one. North Korea's nuclear test on May 25 threatened to undo everything Hill had worked on as point man for the U.S. in the six-party talks with Pyongyang. But as the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, he was focused that evening on bad news closer to his home: a roadside bomb in Fallujah had killed a senior State Department official working on Iraq's reconstruction and two others. Hill had given a speech earlier in the day about American sacrifices on foreign soil; here...
...military pullout will inevitably change the nature of the U.S. role in Iraq and that of its ambassador. Hill, 57, cannot play the plenipotentiary, as his predecessors did. U.S. civilian assistance to Iraq, now about $500 million a year, is a far cry from the $20 billion Paul Bremer, Washington's first postinvasion envoy, had at his disposal. "Without 120,000 soldiers behind him and a blank check from Washington, you can say [Hill] is the first real American ambassador to Iraq," says the Iraqi official, who asked not to be named. "And we will treat him with respect...
Whatever happens to the economy, many Iraqis will long blame the U.S. for the strife they have suffered since 2003. In previous postings, Hill has been known for tackling anti-American sentiment; while ambassador to South Korea, he made impromptu visits to the country's universities, where the U.S. is far from loved. But that sort of gesture is tough in Iraq; U.S. ambassadors must travel with a small army of guards. And even the highest security couldn't prevent an angry journalist from hurling his shoes at George W. Bush when the then President visited Baghdad in December...
...Most famous was the demise of the Eastern Bloc and then the Soviet Union itself, which came on the heels of years of sustained U.S.-led international pressure. Another example is South Korea, where energetic bipartisan U.S. pressure peaked in 1987 when U.S. ambassador Jim Lilley hand delivered a letter from President Reagan urging against a crackdown on protesters. The advice was heeded. Two weeks later the protesters' demands were met, and Korean democracy was born...