Word: diplomatically
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Studying Kim Jong Il requires, as one of the few who made a living at it once declared, "a certain defective personality type." Said retired U.S. diplomat Daniel Jackson, "Not only do you have to enjoy banging your head against a wall, you have to feel vaguely guilty about it on those rare occasions when you don't, in fact, have a headache." With the dramatic, surprise trip by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill to Pyongyang after the regime's promise about nuclear inspection - all part of a recent slew of backing-and-forthing between the Hermit Kingdom and the rest...
...gross domestic product ($547 billion in 1986). But in economic matters, the crippling U.S. budget and trade deficits cause America to appear as a supplicant rather than a confident leader. The $170 billion shortfall in trade last year made the U.S. the world's largest debtor nation. A Western diplomat in Venice said bluntly, "The strategy of the U.S. at the summit does not take into account its declining economic power...
...year-old President appeared visibly older and slower, physically and mentally. He dismayed several heads of government by reading from index cards during informal gatherings, something he had not done at previous summits. Compared with his performance at the Tokyo summit last year, said a French diplomat, the President "seemed much less at ease, much more hesitant...
...security guard protecting his charges. But Pullo works for the other side. "We are not taking hostages because of money," he says. "We are taking hostages to draw world attention to our plight." Nigeria is the oil giant of Africa. It is also, as an American diplomat in the region says, "one big problem...
...energy security depends in part on political and economic stability in West Africa." American warships already patrol off West Africa, and U.S. energy and security experts have repeatedly called for a permanent military base in the region, possibly on São Tomé and Principe. The American diplomat is dismissive. "The notion that we're going to build a base on São Tomé, like Guantánamo or Diego Garcia, is unrealistic," he says, but he adds that the U.S. is talking to several countries around the region about a permanent U.S. naval presence. The formation...