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...repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone." In other words, neither China nor South Korea want to see a chaotic transition, in part because that might mean tens of thousands of refugees pouring across their borders, or, in the worst case, a civil war in the WMD-laden North that might require U.S. intervention - Beijing's absolute worst-case scenario...
...Governments in Washington, Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo are now running this drill, because anonymous intelligence sources are saying Kim Jong Il, the 66-year-old dictator in Pyongyang, is ill. He might even have had a stroke, the reports say; in any case he did not show up for the mass celebration the country threw for its 60th anniversary on Sept. 9, a pretty unusual absence even for a reclusive leader not known for his predictability...
...McCain has admitted his humanness and his mistakes. I like goodness, mercy, honor, faithfulness, doing the right thing and, in McCain?s case, being tough enough to weather the troubles sure to face him as President. None of these qualities guarantee success, but they do provide the foundations for sound decisions. Malcolm Koch, Waldport, Oregon...
...sacred soil continues to stoke debate: the project's footprint covers the 1,300 graves in St. Johannes Cemetery, which the city says it will be forced to unearth. The forecast for the 159-year-old site darkened in May when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case...
...brutal authoritarianism may be repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone." Neither China nor South Korea want to see a chaotic transition, in part because that might mean tens of thousands of refugees pouring across their borders, or, in the worst case, some sort of civil war in the WMD-laden North that might require U.S. intervention. That, indeed, is Beijing's absolute worst-case scenario...