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...weapons of mass destruction] was better than our intelligence on North Korea,” said Arthur Brown, a former chief of the CIA’s Asia division. The discussion was marked by talk that the United States should be realistic in assessing its options on how to disarm North Korea and head off the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Linton, of the Eugene Bell Foundation, cautioned against encouraging regime change. “China doesn’t want a refugee flow, and South Korea doesn’t want to support the entire North Korean population...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Expert: North Korean Regime Sturdy | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...while the Security Council this week will certainly punish North Korea for its nuclear provocation, the likelihood is that such punishment will be measured with a view to restarting the six-party process. The end game, as ever, remains persuading North Korea to disarm in exchange for a package of political, economic and security incentives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Put the Squeeze on North Korea | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...remarks following the test announcement, warning that any attempt by North Korea to share its new toys with others would bring harsh consequences. That, of course, is a prudent position in dealing with a nuclear-armed state. The international community would like every nuclear-armed state to disarm, but barring that, it must try to lock such states into arrangements that prevent nuclear weapons from actually being used, or from being exported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What North Korea Wants From the Nuke Standoff | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...Whatever sanctions are agreed on, their purpose will not be to punish and isolate North Korea as an end in itself, but instead to modify North Korea's behavior - to persuade it to disarm and refrain from proliferating. As incensed as they are by North Korea's behavior, China and South Korea have long resisted imposing sanctions that would bring down the regime by cutting off food and energy supplies, and that's unlikely to change. They fear that a collapse of the regime would send millions of refugees across their borders, and probably cause a heavily armed and unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What North Korea Wants From the Nuke Standoff | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...from choking North Korea's food and energy lifeblood remain in place. And North Korea clearly sees its nuclear test not as ending the discussion, but rather as a way of strengthening its negotiating position: Its statement last week announcing the forthcoming test stressed that North Korea refused to disarm unilaterally, but remained committed to a dialogue "aimed at settling the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and removing the very source of all nuclear threats from the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity." It added that North Korea remained committed to achieve "the denuclearization of the peninsula through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Calls the U.S.'s Bluff | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

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