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...always, it is unclear whether the North is bluffing. But Pyongyang's delegates to the talks had never been in a convivial mood. According to an American diplomat at the sessions, North Korea's representative, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the U.S. had left the North no choice but to declare itself a nuclear power--and that Pyongyang would soon conduct a nuclear test. The next day Kelly recounted what he had been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly...
...control." Few anywhere want that; but it would be no surprise if Bush Administration hawks, who have long wanted to step up pressure on Pyongyang, now saw little reason to extend their patience. "The North Koreans have run this particular film on too many Saturday nights," says a Western diplomat. Sounds like someone's getting tired of the show. --Reported by Matthew Forney/Beijing and Donald Macintyre/Seoul
DIED. SIR WILFRED THESIGER, 93, indefatigable explorer and travel writer; in London. Born in Addis Ababa, the son of a British diplomat, he established his reputation at age 23 when he discovered the source of East Africa's Awash River, something several men before him perished trying to do. He later became the first Westerner to twice cross Saudi Arabia's vast, uncharted Empty Quarter. The punishing expeditions were chronicled in his best-selling book Arabian Sands. Subsequent years spent living in southern Iraq led to his second acclaimed book, Marsh Arabs. Thesiger continued to risk his life exploring...
...Iraq become the world vs. the terrorists--and perhaps financially, but it would have limited military utility: State expects only 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers. And a deal will be difficult: the U.N. will agree to American control of the military operations, but not civil administration. "No Bremer," an international diplomat told me. "He's not done very well...
...with the proceedings, some observers still expect a new round of talks later this year. It's hard to be sanguine, though, given the North's record of incendiary rhetoric and broken promises. "The North Koreans have run this particular film on too many Saturday nights," says a Western diplomat. "Now they have got to give something very seriously up front...