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...news crew in Pyongyang that the country was producing more nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, a meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and U.S. President George W. Bush, despite declarations of unity, ended with the two allies unable to agree, as usual, whether to coax North Korean despot Kim Jong Il with aid and trade or hammer him with tougher economic sanctions...
...plus another 300,000 tons of corn through the WFP. This year, it hasn't sent anything. South Korean opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong last week accused Roh's government of using food aid as a political tool. "Do we really want a nuclear-free Korea without the Kim Jong Il regime at the cost of millions of dead?" Won asked. "North Korea is always an ethical quagmire," says Peter Beck, head of the International Crisis Group in Seoul. "Humanitarian aid is one of the only leverage points the Bush Administration and the Roh administration have...
...averting the food crisis. "If you let things slide, it can go south really quick," says Ragan from the WFP. The world was taken by surprise during the 1990s famine. "We don't have any excuse for letting it happen again," Ragan says. Then again, neither does Kim Jong...
...implicit comparison would drive many Americans to distraction. Guant?namo isn't in the same league as Kim Jong Il's gulag. But it's bad enough, and as Mahbubani points out, it has weakened the moral authority that the U.S. had at the end of the cold war. Alas, his brief chapter on what the U.S. can do about this flirts with the banal ("promote greater respect for international law"). Which means the ultimate message of the book is clear if, for Americans, depressing: in places like Guant?namo, the U.S. frittered away much of the world's trust...
...Height of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's platform shoes, according to a report in the South Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo