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...unmistakably hopeful sign that the deal Pyongyang signed in February but ignored until last week was still in force, and that North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il might actually be living up to its terms. Days after Hill's visit, North Korea allowed into the country a group of U.N. inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who are there to verify the shutdown of the plutonium reactor at Yongbyon. Pyongyang has also agreed to account for and eliminate its stockpiles of nuclear weapons and weapons-making material the North may have accumulated in the years since Kim kicked...
...ties, Hill in a June 22 press conference in Seoul said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was prepared to attend six-party talks in Beijing this summer. That would be the first meeting between a U.S. Secretary of State and senior North Korean officials since Madeleine Albright met with Kim in Pyongyang in late...
...what's been its policy for at least the last 25 years [the pursuit of nuclear weapons] thanks to the sound of the Chris Hill's sweet voice," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. But if Kim does indeed shut down his reactor next month, that will, undeniably, represent progress. And as one foreign diplomat put it, considering that North Korea conducted its first nuclear-weapons test eight months ago, "a little progress beats the alternative, doesn...
...moment of truth of sorts will arrive soon enough: if Kim verifiably shuts down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor - a process that is supposed to begin later this summer - he will, in fact have given up something that the pessimists have always believed has been critical to him: his nuclear card, which in his view has guaranteed his regime's survival in the post-Sept. 11, preemptive world. Give that up, and the optimists will have a reason to smile, even if they are members of the Masochists Club...
...absolutely appalled that the U.S., having infuriated the North with a targeted, highly effective sanction - the freezing of $25 million in funds in Macau, most of which came from illegal businesses like counterfeiting - simply said "never mind" when it became clear the dust-up would ruin the nuclear deal. Kim, in this view, is a hard guy to get any leverage over, simply because he doesn't think like a normal head of state: everything is a zero sum game to him - you win or I win. The U.S. Treasury's action freezing the funds squeezed the regime...