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...added that there is no “hard and fast proposal” from Harvard on the table, but rather a framework that councillors will continue to discuss...
...party?s current election platform certainly confirms a political vision no Palestinian or Arab leader would ever accept: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river,? the Likud manifesto states. ?The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state...
...October 1994, the U.S. and North Korea concluded a tense, two-year standoff with an accord that seemed to usher in a new era of cooperation in North Asia. By signing a deal called the Agreed Framework, the U.S. promised to provide impoverished North Korea with energy assistance. In exchange, the North agreed to halt production of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Countries in the Stalinist state's menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement...
...complexities involved in the U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq after taking out Saddam Hussein, the fact that "regime change" is being discussed at all is evidence of rising exasperation with Kim. In the past year, the Dear Leader has repudiated all past nuclear bargains and treaties, including the Agreed Framework and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, all the while hurling provocative invective at the U.S. Kim's government acknowledges it has been carrying out a clandestine program to make bombs from enriched uranium. North Korea is believed to have enough fissile material for at least two N-bombs already, and since...
...Still, in the past when Kim has emerged from his hardened bunker, he has proven to be a maddeningly immovable negotiator. Talks leading to the 1994 Agreed Framework took 55 rounds to complete; current talks have not begun, yet already the North has set the process back by threatening to export nuclear bombs. "These are people who believe in letting 20% of their people starve if necessary," says Adrian Buzo, an Australian scholar who was a diplomat in Pyongyang in the 1970s. "They already have missiles. They have rudimentary nuclear devices. What can the world offer them...