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...matter what the incentives. "It beggars the imagination to believe that the North Korean regime will give up what's been its policy for at least the last 25 years [the pursuit of nuclear weapons] thanks to the sound of the Chris Hill's sweet voice," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. But if Kim does indeed shut down his reactor next month, that will, undeniably, represent progress. And as one foreign diplomat put it, considering that North Korea conducted its first nuclear-weapons test eight months...
...supply of expensive gifts Kim lavishes upon high-level loyalists to ensure their allegiance could undermine his rule enough to force him back to the negotiating table-or so the theory goes. But efforts to deprive him of such baubles are "at best pinpricks," says North Korea expert Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, "slightly raising the premium Kim Jong Il must pay for his goodies on other markets." Even if more countries adopt and enforce the U.S. list of banned items, Kim's cronies will troll the black market or continue to "buy the stuff in China with...
...Chinese leaders worry that draconian sanctions such as cutting off food and fuel shipments could trigger the regime's collapse, bringing refugees, disease and economic and social disruption to China's northeast. Such fears are well founded, says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In 1994, China's reduction of rice supplies to the North?part of a previous effort to force Pyongyang to negotiate over its nuclear-weapons program?contributed to a devastating famine. "The famine was the fault of North Korean mismanagement, of course, but it's clear that Chinese actions were the straw that...
...watchers as a combination of the Rosetta Stone and Enigma, the machine used by the Nazis to encode messages during World War II. "It's amazing that a phone book should offer important insights into the nature of any government on the face of the earth today," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. "But that tells you how successfully the North Korean leadership has suppressed information that might allow outsiders to draw an independent assessment of it." Kim Choong Nam, a North Korea specialist at the East-West Center, a think...