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...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...
...finally figured out the reason for North Korea's bizarre behavior of late: some time last year, in a still top-secret caper, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must have convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to switch sides and sign on to the Pentagon payroll. Okay, I admit this is far fetched. But it might just explain the series of self-defeating plays Kim has made on the strategic chessboard since President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. Of course, Pyongyang's approach to statecraft has always appeared a tad peculiar, its international posture unapologetically savage...
...proudly independent player, determined to mollify North Korea through economic and diplomatic engagement. But Roh's "Peace and Prosperity Policy" toward the North won't play well in the post-Iraq war White House, where hard-liners are deeply skeptical that bargaining with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will be any more fruitful than bargaining with Saddam Hussein?a suspicion confirmed late last month when talks between the U.S. and North Korea in Beijing ended acrimoniously...
...fellow member of the "axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos...
...unforgettable images he captured during a half-century of photojournalism. This week, a stunning retrospective of that work goes on display at the Bibliothèque National de France (BNF). An exhibit that is as much about the man as the pictures. The title, "De qui s'agit-il?" (Who is he really?), is a play on one of Cartier-Bresson's signature catchphrases, De quoi s'agit-il?, or What's it all about? "I didn't want the show to be just a collection of Henri's best photographs," says curator Robert Delpire, founding director of the Centre...