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Emerging from a hastily called U.N. Security Council session on North Korea's nuclear test, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton sounded oddly optimistic. "I was very impressed by the unanimity of the council," Bolton told reporters, "... on the need for a strong and swift answer to what everyone agreed amounted to a threat to international peace and security...
...Bolton's almost cheerful description of what he called a "remarkable" Security Council session reflected a surprising reality - the North Korean nuclear test may actually be a boon to the U.S.' long-frustrated efforts to achieve consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has done her best to leave behind the Bush Administration's go-it-alone cowboy diplomacy of the first term and build real international coalitions, but until the test she had no success convincing China and South Korea, the North's primary trading partners, to leverage their economic relationships into serious pressure...
...notwithstanding John Bolton's smile, there may still be limits to how much unanimity the U.S. can achieve on North Korea. Some of the same calculations that the North Koreans likely made in choosing to test their nuke now may well protect them now from any kind of harsh international response. "They see the international community has its hands full with Iraq and Iran. They recognize they're at the apex of South Korean softness towards the North. The next election in about a year will probably lead to a more conservative South Korean government. They calculate that China...
...makes it hard to take him seriously as a statesman. While Ahmadinejad wowed U.S. audiences with his verbal dexterity last week, Chávez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Chávez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chávez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with. (One of his favorite American films is Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider.) Chávez is fond...
...would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro - and also fears that Venezuela might thwart the Bush Administration's efforts to rein in Iran's uranium enrichment program - is battling hard to get Guatemala elected to the Latin seat instead. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton - pointing to just the kind of raw rhetoric Chavez used today - has repeatedly warned that Venezuela would be a "disruptive" presence on the Council. Nevertheless, Chavez looks likely to best the U.S. in this contest...