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...always, it is unclear whether the North is bluffing. But Pyongyang's delegates to the talks had never been in a convivial mood. According to an American diplomat at the sessions, North Korea's representative, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the U.S. had left the North no choice but to declare itself a nuclear power--and that Pyongyang would soon conduct a nuclear test. The next day Kelly recounted what he had been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly...
...Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...
...Past Covers Dyslexia September 8, 2003 ----------------- U.S. in Iraq September 1, 2003 ----------------- Asian Journey August 18-25, 2003 ----------------- Cool Japan August 11, 2003 ----------------- Gloria Arroyo August 4, 2003 ----------------- Women in China July 28, 2003 ----------------- Asian Longevity July 21, 2003 ----------------- Hong Kong July 14, 2003 ----------------- Southeast Asia July 7, 2003 ----------------- Kim Jong Il June...
...Despite admonitions to behave, North Korea lobbed a cherry bomb on the very first day of negotiations. According to an American diplomat who participated in the sessions, North Korea's representative at the talks, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, privately told the U.S.'s top negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the circumstances left the North "no choice" but to declare itself a nuclear power?and to prove the claim by conducting a nuclear test. Alarming as this sounds, it's standard operating procedure for North Korea, which has calculatedly tried to frighten the international community into...
...Indeed, triumph will come for the U.S. only if Kim Jong Il gives up his nuclear ambitions. Despite North Korea's stated disgust with the proceedings, some observers still expect a new round of talks later this year. It's hard to be sanguine, though, given the North's record of incendiary rhetoric and broken promises. "The North Koreans have run this particular film on too many Saturday nights," says a Western diplomat. "Now they have got to give something very seriously up front...