Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration defends this investment in peace by saying that the only alternative is war. This is a simple capitulation to blackmail. The U.S. never threatened war as an alternative to agreement. It threatened economic sanctions to squeeze North Korea into complying now, not someday, with its nuclear-treaty obligations. Pyongyang, economically moribund and starved for oil, then rattled its saber. Clinton caved...
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...deal wobbles most seriously because it may encourage other bad actors to develop similar blackmail abilities. "But North Korea is special," says Manning. "Its army is huge, its leaders are insulated, and it has proved its ! willingness to fight, which it might do again if it feels cornered." Besides, adds Ackerman, rejecting the "bad precedent" argument, "we've bought off other nuclear weapons, as in Ukraine, and we're constantly purchasing arms that have fallen into bad hands. It's better to do a buyback than to have the stuff fired at us. North Korea is just a larger version...
...mere fact that plutonium is on the market could conceivably lend credibility to terrorist groups that might try to persuade people they have built a bomb. "The problem now," says Richard Guthrie of the Verification Technology Information Center, a nonprofit group in London, "is blackmail. If someone says he's built a bomb in a basement somewhere, how does a government react when that person produces a gram or so of weapons-grade material to prove the threat...
...television message broadcast Tuesday night, Fujimori withdrew all of Susana Higuchi's responsibilities and privileges in the ceremonial post. And why not? Over the last 2 weeks, his wife -- a presidential aspirant herself -- has accused various ministers of corruption and her husband of "authoritarianism." His comebacks: "disloyalty" and "blackmail." Oddly, there's no talk of divorce. BTW: Henry VIII had six wives: he divorced two, beheaded two, saw one die and died before causing the last one any trouble...