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...only as a deterrent to the threatening nuclear superpower of the U.S. [Feb. 21]. President Bush included North Korea in his notorious "axis of evil," along with Iraq and Iran. He invaded Iraq and has now focused world attention on Iran. He said he loathes North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and called him a "pygmy." The U.S. has in the past maintained up to 40,000 troops at North Korea's border with the South. Bush needs only to look in the mirror to see the person most responsible for forcing North Korea to go nuclear. Reno S. Zack...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell in his policy battles with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. And most famously, just as delicate six-party talks, including North Korea, were about to begin discussing Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program in 2003, Bolton delivered a speech excoriating Kim Jong Il as the "tyrannical dictator" of a country in which "life is a hellish nightmare." Pyongyang responded by calling Bolton "human scum...
...choice not yet been made? Kim Il Sung gave his son the nod by naming him to the Politburo at the age of 32 and then cranked up the regime's propaganda arm to sing his praises. Kim Jong Il's eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, is 33 but the official media isn't yet hyperventilating about him. Meanwhile, Kim's other sons Jong Chol, 23, and Jong Woon, 21, also remain invisible...
...world isn't privy to the inner workings of the secretive regime, but the succession delay may reflect a problem of Kim's own making. A playboy as a young man, he had sons with at least two women but married neither. The mother of Jong Nam was a movie starlet Kim fell for in the 1960s. She was later displaced by an equally attractive dancer named Ko Young Hee, who had his two younger sons...
...there's no Wife No. 1, whose son is in line for the throne? As the eldest, Jong Nam is the logical choice, but he is thought to be odd even by Kim family standards and unfit to rule. The apparent deal breaker occurred in 2001 when he was caught trying to sneak into Japan on a Dominican passport so he could visit Tokyo Disneyland. In 2002, state media seemed to be clearing a path for one of Kim's younger sons by boosting the profile of Ko, but her death last year, reportedly of cancer, may have thrown...