Word: jong
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...semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a humor magazine, the natural decision was to send it to the Soviet Union. Who knows what nemesis state would even have it today, or whether we’d have the cajones to send it to them? Kim Jong-Il would probably like it, but he seems like small (crazy) potatoes after Stalin’s enormous (crazy) feast.Now, when Harvard undergraduates invoke the father of communism, it’s not as a political herald but as a conversation piece for social studies concentrators. Even then, Marx...
Worst of all, a nuclear deal with North Korea that had seemed within reach has foundered. Although leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly agreed to detail the extent of his arsenal by the end of April, hints of softer U.S. terms, according to Bush's former top North Korea expert, Michael Green, project to allies the "appearance of desperation" in pursuit of a signing ceremony. Which is definitely not the diplomatic legacy Bush had in mind...
...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...
...also backfire. Pyongyang at the moment is still talking to the U.S., but North Korea in the past has proven almost impervious to economic punishment. The Rodong Sinmun already warned that Lee's hard line "throws a hurdle in the way of the settlement of the nuclear issue." Kim Jong Il, after all, is always looking for an excuse to break his word...
...stalled. 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...