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When dealing with North Korea, "making sure" is never a bad idea. Going back to 1994, when the Clinton Administration cajoled Pyongyang into promising to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. But for the Bush Administration...
When dealing with North Korea, "making sure" is always the hardest part. Since 1994, when the Clinton Administration cajoled Pyongyang into promising to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. For the Bush Administration, whose officials had...
Who are the front-runners? Five out of six contenders are figureheads whose job is to make the election look presentable, observers say. Though clan leaders involved with natural gas, cotton and other businesses all have power aspirations, they have given way to one candidate endorsed by the late dictator...
The plush chairs in the lobby of Macau's Mandarin Oriental Hotel are filled with a cadre of journalists looking distinctly slovenly in their luxurious surroundings. Tripods poke out from underneath couches, cameras rest on tables, and reporters crane their necks to stare down the corridors. The object of the...
A dictator falls, a country is set free and in the inevitable spasm of liberation, some folks get wistful about the bad old days. It happened in Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down...