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...also a diplomatic success because it has - for the moment anyway - tied the Obama Administration in knots. The White House's aim - publicly voiced last week by Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's special envoy for North Korea - has been to re-energize the so-called six-party talks that focus on North Korean denuclearization, and even to engage the North directly. Bosworth was quoted as saying that will still be the case "after the dust from the missiles settles...
...That's a win for Kim, and it leaves the Obama Administration forced to cajole its East Asian allies to set aside their anger and get back on the diplomatic track with Pyongyang. Bosworth, upon his appointment to the special-envoy job earlier this year, said he was under "no illusions" as to how difficult the task would be. After yesterday, it's fair to conclude that he didn't know the half...
...American diplomats and their partners in east Asia privately regarded the launch as a fait accompli. U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy, Stephen Bosworth, has said that launch or no launch, Washington hoped to push on with talks aimed at getting the North to give up its nuclear weapons program - even hinting that the direct U.S.-North Korean talks Pyongyang has always wanted were possible. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...Netanyahu's showdown with Washington may happen soon. Leader of the hawkish Likud Party, Netanyahu will meet with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Jerusalem on April 16. That meeting will be a dress rehearsal for the Prime Minister's trip to Washington in May for talks with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who are pushing for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as a key to a wider peace in the region. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...Washington, at least, the vague outlines of an Obama-sponsored peace plan are starting to take shape. The Israeli press say that U.S. envoy Mitchell will propose a new formula to Netanyahu: an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, excepting the large Jewish settlements around Jerusalem; having Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a future Palestine; the adoption of a special status for the Old City, holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims; the return of refugees to a Palestinian state, with Israel accepting some responsibility for their plight; and the presence of a multinational force in the Palestinian...