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...Japan have taken the lead in pushing for tough measures that would squeeze North Korea by enforcing a wide-ranging embargo, requiring that shipping entering and leaving North Korean waters be subject to search under threat of force. Japan has already instituted tough measures curbing trade and travel, and Washington and Tokyo pushed for the Security Council to pass a resolution under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which allows for decisions to be backed by the threat or use of force in response to threats to global security...
...Slideshow woes I can handle, but there are some shortcomings that this $350 device should have worked out by now. For instance, there's no way to turn the page with your right hand. Owing to its origins in right-to-left-reading Japan, the two sets of page-turning buttons have been located on the left hand side; reflexively, readers of Roman script want to turn the page on the right. It takes some getting used to. Still, because there is a directional pad on the right, my guess is that this could be fixed with a simple software...
...Dropping sanctions, of course, is the last thing anyone has in mind right now. Japan has already implemented some new ones of its own, cutting all imports from North Korea (mushrooms, coal and shellfish) and prohibiting North Korean vessels from docking at its ports. Although the U.S. has no trade or similar ties with North Korea, it could also use its dominant role in the international banking system to tighten the squeeze on North Korean funds imposed by the financial sanctions adopted a year ago. But the appetite of others to follow suit appears to be limited...
...hands on one; but that heightens the risk to the supplier too. Any evidence that a nuclear terror bomb had been supplied by Pyongyang would result in that country's liquidation. Proliferation is harder to stop, though it's doubtful that there's much public appetite in countries like Japan and South Korea for an expensive, destabilizing arms race. One of the first things the U.S. should do now is reassure those nations that the U.S. is committed to their defense and they are protected by America's nuclear umbrella. Far from what North Korea hopes, the U.S. will probably...
Over the past two weeks the talk of the international stage has been North Korean president Kim Jong Il and his testing of a nuclear weapon, which made its three neighbors, South Korea, China and Japan nervous and gave the Bush Administration one more headache. Since then, the web has been abuzz with news, viewpoints and factoids about the DPRK. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting items the Internet has to offer on the subject...