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Speaking to an overflowing tent rife with hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) alumni, Sen. Barack H. Obama (D-IL) urged accountability, empathy, and action in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
...talks?the international diplomatic game in which North Korea pretends to consider denuclearizing, while five other countries at the table pretend to believe Pyongyang is serious?seem to have entered a new and surreal phase. By many yardsticks (to pick just one: the amount of plutonium in Kim Jong Il's nuclear arsenal), the North Korean nuclear problem is decidedly more acute today than it was before the negotiating process began two years ago. Thus far, the fourth round of talks has been as fruitless as the previous three. After 13 days of meetings without substantive progress, negotiations were recessed...
...impossible. But not even the supposedly unilateralist Bush Administration was willing to declare the talks finished. So Pyongyang was free to press ahead in its race to develop and amass nuclear weapons, confident that it would be able to return to "denuclearization" discussions at a time of Kim Jong Il's own choosing. North Korea finally agreed in June to go back to the table, but only after a promise of half a million tons of free rice from South Korea. And in the months leading up to the current talks, North Korea did not exactly signal its wholehearted enthusiasm...
...seized the policymaking initiative from hawks close to Cheney and Rumsfeld. "She has recentered American foreign policy in the State Department," says Burns. That shift has been most evident in the Administration's policy toward North Korea. Although Rice is known to have expressed skepticism that Kim Jong Il is prepared to give up his nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises of aid and trade, she nonetheless secured White House approval to allow Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy to the six-party negotiations with Pyongyang, to exchange views with the North Koreans face to face--authority that was never granted...
With Kim Jong Il suddenly remaking himself into a friend of the West and with leaders from Libya to Iran whispering hints of moderation, what's left to fear? Plenty, according to Washington think tanks and Pentagon planners who specialize in looking for the next threat. Among the biggest worries are terrorism, Iraq, the continuing threat from Russian and Chinese nuclear arsenals, and ongoing conflicts with small but hard-to-hit "sub-state" groups such as the narcotics traffickers currently working the U.S.-Mexican border...