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...When dealing with North Korea, "making sure" is never a bad idea. Going back to 1994, when the Clinton Administration cajoled Pyongyang into promising to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. But for the Bush Administration, whose officials had once speculated openly about the possibility of forcing Kim from power by cutting off his regime from aid and trade, the agreement signed on Tuesday represented a victory-albeit a small one. Now, the immediate question it faces is simple: Have the U.S. and its four negotiating...
...nation’s top teams in the Wildcats (5-0). While the Crimson (0-2) lost 5-2, the match proved the ability of Harvard’s patched together team to compete at the highest level. Playing against Kentucky’s top doubles team of Kim Coventry and Joelle Schwenk, ranked third in the country, the Crimson’s duo of Beier Ko and Lena Litvak trailed 0-4 before rallying to take a 7-4 lead. Ko and Litvak eventually lost 7-5 in a tiebreak, but the match demonstrated the promise of the pairing...
Still, while the affair has its concealed agendas--Iraq and a loathing of Blair's support for George W. Bush, a President Britons rate as substantially more dangerous to world peace than Kim Jong Il--the Prime Minister is the author of his predicament. His troubles have their roots in the days when his party reveled in a deep-seated hostility to the running dogs of capitalism. "In 1983 we still had a manifesto committed to nationalizing key parts of industry, promoting an agenda that was set against every interest of British business," says Ed Owen, a former government adviser...
...Last month, Hill met in Berlin with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye Gwan, and the first signs of a possible thaw became apparent. Hill referred to "good signs" after the meeting, and now diplomats say they hope that at the current round of talks Pyongyang will agree to shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produces the basic fissile material it needs for the bomb. There is also talk that international inspectors may be allowed back into North Korea to visit Yongbyon and perhaps other nuclear sites. In return, the U.S. and its allies in the talks - China...
...from the international financial system). The U.S. has said it suspects the North uses the accounts to launder money gained through counterfeiting U.S. currency and narcotics sales. South Korean sources have also told TIME that some the accounts held at the bank are controlled by elites in Pyongyang ("people Kim Jong Il has to deal with every day," says one intelligence source) who were infuriated by the freeze...