Word: brinkmanship
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President Bush set out to wrestle the headlines back from North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship, Friday, warning that Saddam Hussein's "day of reckoning" is approaching and telling U.S. troops that they may soon be asked to "liberate" Iraq. He added the by-now traditional war-is-not-inevitable rider, but made clear that avoiding one was up to Saddam - and that he doubted the Iraqi leader would do so. On North Korea, however, he was more optimistic, insisting that unified diplomacy could force Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions, even if the same approach had failed to shift Saddam...
...Increasingly, it is the country with the closest ties to North Korea that could play a key role in dissuading Kim from his nuclear brinkmanship: China. A budding superpower with a seat on the U.N. Security Council, China shares a border with North Korea and has a long history of propping up the country's bankrupt regime. In 1950, Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River and fought the U.S. to a stalemate, ending the Korean War and rescuing Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, from defeat. Today the mainland is North Korea's biggest benefactor...
...South Korean officials, however, see the latest nuclear muscle flexing by Pyongyang as the continuation of a long-established pattern of extortion through brinkmanship - the North Koreans unveil some new weapon threat and hang tough, and then agree to mothball it in exchange for economic aid. Even now, Pyongyang is sending out mixed messages, brandishing a nuclear threat but also hinting that it would disarm in exchange for a non-aggression pact and other concessions from the U.S. That's not palatable to the Bush Administration, but the alternative is a policy of malign neglect in which North Korea...
...weeks ago, the unnerving game of tit-for-tat appeared to be escalating. When Pakistan tested its Shaheen missile system (capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Indian capital of New Delhi) India retorted with its own provocative rocket launch within hours. Surprisingly, however, such brinkmanship may have spooked both nations enough to force a breakthrough in relations. When New Delhi announced on Wednesday that it was pulling back some of its 500,000 troops posted along its border with Pakistan, Islamabad said it would follow suit, and everyone concerned about potential nuclear holocaust in South Asia exhaled...
...first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kashmir. And with an average death toll of 13 people a day, it'll be difficult to find room to mention the scenery in my dispatches. But in these fearsome days of violence, terror and nuclear brinkmanship, I take some solace from the notion that when a Kashmiri thinks of peace and beauty, he thinks of home...