Word: brinkmanship
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...offer as a "deceptive drama to mislead world opinion") but analysts interpret the remarks as typically shrill North Korean bargaining. Pyongyang will try and hold out for a formal non-aggression pact, while the Bush Administration will likely offer some lesser form of written security guarantee. But the nuclear brinkmanship appears designed primarily as a negotiating tactic to pressure the U.S. and its allies into new concessions...
...broke down at both ends: The North Koreans sought new ways of producing weapons-grade nuclear fuel via centrifuges, and trashed the spirit of rapprochement by test-firing missiles over Japan; but the U.S. and its allies also failed to deliver on the promised energy assistance. Now, North Korean brinkmanship has put both sides have found themselves back on the path to a confrontation neither can afford, which has forced them to revisit their agreement...
...reasonable New Year's resolution for India and Pakistan might have been to stop playing nuclear brinkmanship. Instead, 2003 in South Asia has begun with both countries reassuring each other that destruction would be mutual. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf had rung out the old year by boasting that he had forced India to back down during last year's tense standoff in Kashmir by threatening to go beyond conventional warfare. On Jan. 4, New Delhi responded by announcing it had established a command and control structure for its nuclear arsenal. Then, three days later, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes...
...spite of the North's increasingly menacing brinkmanship, South Korea advocates a diplomatic strategy markedly different from that of the U.S. While the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is inclined to force North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to heel by isolating him and imposing harsh sanctions, Seoul is pushing assistance and engagement?and it wants the U.S. to negotiate with Kim before he goes too far. Youthful South Koreans like Lee favor this approach. "They are rejecting the Cold War mentality and deliberately setting out on a new course," says Kim Kyung Won, former South Korean ambassador...
...Still, North Korea's actions fit a well-established pattern of North Korea negotiating via nuclear brinkmanship, and Pyongyang itself insists that it is ready to renounce its programs in exchange for economic aid and political recognition. While the Bush administration has insisted that it won't negotiate before Pyongyang closes down its nuclear program, U.S. allies in the region - most notably South Korea - are urging that Washington adopt a more flexible approach. That may cut against the administration's political instincts, but the president has strong grounds for stressing the potential for diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff...