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...North Korea warned last week that it would consider sanctions "the green light to a war." And South Korea, which faces Kim's artillery batteries across the Demilitarized Zone, has long argued against provoking the North by playing tough. Might Roh finally relent, joining Bush in a bid to sever the North's financial lifelines? Not likely, says Chuck Downs, author of Over the Line, a study of North Korea's negotiating tactics, "Their ace in the hole is South Korean fear...
...North's claim that it is armed and dangerous?and would consider selling its weapons-grade plutonium overseas?may backfire, scaring even Kim's would-be friends into siding with the U.S. Russia has already said it might consider sanctions, and China is finally losing patience with the North. Nobody welcomes the prospect of Kim touching off an Asian arms race in which countries within range of North Korean missiles, like Japan, seek doomsday weapons of their...
...White House visit. While campaigning for President, Roh promised to maintain peace on the peninsula at almost any cost, but the North's brinkmanship makes it tougher to argue for dangling carrots instead of wielding sticks. Seoul still wants further discussions and thinks the U.S. might eventually convince Kim to disarm by accepting the North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter," says an Administration official. The result? "Roh is conflicted...
...indeed toughening his stance, he'll have something to talk about with Bush. But if he goes to Washington merely to push for engagement, the visit could be an embarrassing rerun of former President Kim Dae Jung's White House misadventure in 2001. That summit went off the rails when Bush aired his long-standing doubts about negotiating with the North. "If you think President Bush is suddenly going to change his position because of Roh Moo Hyun?that's just not going to happen," says a Bush Administration official...
...fellow member of the "axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos...