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...Italy near the Slovenian border. The red pine monument is not some avant-garde artistic statement. It's an oversize acknowledgment by the community of the industry that brought immense prosperity to Manzano and 10 small burgs around it over the past half-century. Known as the "chair triangle" (il triangolo della sedia), this district every year produces as many as 40 million chairs of all shapes and sizes--typically of beech and oak wood--for offices, homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made...
With most of the world focusing on the Danish cartoon controversy, the upset victory by Hamas, and Iran’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea’s celebration of the 64th birthday of its “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il, last week went largely unnoticed. But although many think that the North Korea crisis has passed because all six parties announced last September that they had reached a preliminary agreement, the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is far from settled. No progress has been made in carrying out the agreement...
...current approach has yielded little progress and has only given the North Koreans more time and more negotiation leverage. Instead, the US must realize that multilateral venues are not enough; to bring a peaceful solution, the Bush administration needs to be the principal actor in dealing with Kim Jong Il and take an active role uniting the other parties under common goals and tactics. Anything short of vigorous leadership will render the 2005 tentative agreement as impotent and ineffective as the 1994 Agreed Framework, breathing more life into a regime that has long outlasted its stay...
...that China holds tremendous leverage over its neighbor. The belief that the US can outsource the job of policing North Korea to China has lulled the Bush administration into thinking that it need not take proactive measures. China actually holds only limited sway over the independent-minded Kim Jong Il. The loss of Soviet support and China’s normalization with South Korea in the early 90s has transformed the Chinese-North Korean relationship into one built more on necessity and convenience than allegiance and trust. In fact, China fears pressuring North Korea and causing the collapse...
...government's efforts to improve relations with North Korea. He claims the officials advised him to characterize life in the camp as less brutal and asked him to remove a number of key props, including the North's flags and images of Kim and his late father Kim Il Sung. Jung declines to say who the officials were or which ministry they came from...