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When Ban Ki Moon received word last week that North Korea might be planning to test a nuclear device, he had reason to be anxious. As South Korea's Foreign Minister, Ban is a key player in the six-party talks aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to the dispute...
The consternation at failing to deter North Korea from becoming the world's eighth declared nuclear weapons state (joining the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, China, India and Pakistan - Israel is generally believed to have nuclear weapons, although it has never publicly disclosed such capability) will hardly be confined to Washington...
Leave it to Kim Jong Il to try to spoil a party he wasn't invited to. The reclusive North Korean leader's decision to test a nuclear device Monday morning may well have been timed to disrupt two landmark summit meetings between new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and...
That the Beijing and Seoul summits happened at all was a surprise. A Japanese leader had not visited Beijing in five years and Seoul in more than a year, in part due to former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14...
And they may be right. As angry and concerned as they may be about the test, Beijing and Seoul will likely remain a lot more worried about the collapse of the Pyongyang regime and chaos on their borders than about the murky state of the North's weapons programs. "The...