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...Pyongyang is prone to such outbursts when it's in a diplomatic headlock. And increasingly, Kim Jong Il's government is being tag teamed by the U.S. and South Korea in international efforts to get Kim to dismantle his nuclear arms program. After a promising start to carrying out landmark denuclearization agreements signed by the North in 2007 - deals reached through the six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan - Pyongyang is no longer cooperating. North Korea shut down its main reactor at Yongbyon in July and allowed in international inspectors, as called...
...CNN/YouTube debate last July, for example, Obama said he would meet with leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong Il without conditions in his first year as President, a promise one senior adviser admits was unplanned and unvetted by staff. Clinton pounced, declaring she would be more careful about whom she met--"I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes"--and later calling Obama's answer "irresponsible and frankly naive...
...North Korea had restarted its nuclear reactors and was not responding to calls to shut them down. Hill, only five months into his post, wanted to bring the North back to the table, but the Bush Administration had a policy of not meeting one-on-one with Kim Jong Il's government, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision to go ahead...
...would vote for a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution this week to look into Pyongyang's human rights abuses. Sohn Kwang Joo, an editor at the Daily NK, an online newspaper focusing on North Korea, is confident Lee will continue to press the North, but adds, "Kim Jong Il will react negatively...
...lets himself in. He puts his hands on the wooden counter and thinks about how he felt at the beginning, what it was he was trying to do. Over the past few months, Schultz has also taken to passing around a memo he wrote in 1986. The letterhead says Il Giornale--Starbucks would come later--but the vision was the same. "We recognize this is a unique time; when our coffee bars will change the way people will perceive the beverage," he wrote 22 years ago. "It's an adventure and we're in it together." He signed...