Word: blackmailer
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...those ill-fated talks, the North claimed to have the Bomb already?and insisted on a U.S. security guarantee, normalized relations and economic aid as the price for giving it up. "They're up to their old blackmail game," Bush said. Rather than pay up, Washington hawks now hope to persuade China, Japan and South Korea to rein in Pyongyang with economic sanctions, perhaps even a blockade that would halt Kim's arms and drug sales, the regime's main sources of hard currency...
Multiple motivations underlie North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s nuclear ambitions—including, but not limited to, inflating his international status, intimidating the country’s northeast Asian neighbors and gaining leverage to blackmail the United States into giving financial rewards...
Opening new talks also provides an avenue for improving regional security and reshaping the flawed 1994 Agreed Framework, which most commentators consider equivalent to international blackmail. South Korea and China are unlikely to discontinue aid provisions (official and unofficial) that prop up the faltering North Korean economy, since they both hope to avoid an influx of refugees from a collapsed neighboring regime. Because of this support, their influence on Kim is strong, but they will need to forcefully assert their opposition to his nuclear program and advocate its immediate and unequivocal dismantling with extensive verification by international inspectors...
...American leadership has wisely avoided bilateral talks with North Korea, insisting that multilateral talks including its concerned neighbors will be more productive and less likely to result in blackmail. The next step to improving America’s Asian diplomacy is abdicating the throne of global micromanagement and encouraging other regional powers to take active and responsible roles in promoting peace...
...arguments against Fatal Huggery are obvious. Why encourage and legitimize evildoers? Why allow Kim Jong Il--the Michael Jackson of world leaders--to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel...