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...With Kim Jong Il suddenly remaking himself into a friend of the West and with leaders from Libya to Iran whispering hints of moderation, what's left to fear? Plenty, according to Washington think tanks and Pentagon planners who specialize in looking for the next threat. Among the biggest worries are terrorism, Iraq, the continuing threat from Russian and Chinese nuclear arsenals, and ongoing conflicts with small but hard-to-hit "sub-state" groups such as the narcotics traffickers currently working the U.S.-Mexican border...
...have my full devotion," he said in a statement. It remains to be seen whether the people of California harbor such doubts; his approval ratings have already plummeted to 37%, down from 57% a year ago. "A lot of voters were looking to him to be their hero," says Kim Alexander of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. Now he's looking dangerously like a politician. --By Laura A. Locke
...comfortable with the South Korean offer, and has promised security assurances to North Korea if it comes into compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and similar agreements with the U.S. and South Korea. U.S. President George W. Bush has also made a point of voicing less hostility to the Kim Jong Il regime of late...
...Still missing from the basic approach to negotiations is any sense that the core problem here is the nature of the North Korean regime. To be sure, the Bush Administration would agree that Kim's Stalinist government is the fundamental cause of the nuclear crisis. But Bush seems to entertain unrealistic ideas about replacing that regime, rather than more pragmatically trying to prod it into undertaking major structural change...
...course, it will be hard to get Kim to undertake such reforms. The Romanian example undoubtedly weighs on him: Kim would certainly fear suffering the same bitter fate that Ceausescu experienced if he unleashes reforms he cannot control. That is why any effort to promote structural reform requires not just major carrots if Pyongyang cooperates, but sticks, particularly the credible threat of multilateral economic sanctions, if it does not. The status quo must be made unsustainable. Kim must be forced to choose cooperation or risk a confrontation that would impose an economic noose around his country's neck. He must...