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Hard-liners in George W. Bush's administration, never known for their diplomatic bedside manner, have called it the "strangulation strategy": forcing the North Korean despot Kim Jong Il to shelve his nuclear weapons program by cutting off his isolated country from trade...
...Friendship Bridge across the Yalu River in northeastern China. The span connects the city of Dandong with North Korea, and every day pedicab drivers and minivans haul their goods across the Yalu, bringing scissors and shampoo, fruit and vegetables, and even DVD players and color TVs to market in Kim's socialist paradise. Train cars also trundle over, carrying oil destined for use in North Korea's million-member military. For Kim, the economic link to the outside world that the bridge symbolizes is vital. Beijing knows it?and so does Washington...
...that Kim has once again played his nuclear card?pulling out of talks aimed at disarmament, bragging that he has the Bomb?the strangulation question is front and center. Should North Korea's trade and economic ties, most importantly those with China and South Korea, the North's largest trading partners and charitable benefactors, be choked off to pressure a country that is already among the most economically backward in the world...
...Seneca’s new space...is a testament to how far we have come and how far we still need to go,” Kim wrote...
...Space is continuously an issue at Harvard: for student groups, for classes, to host events, and particularly for women,” Kim wrote...