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...alternative to war, a leaked Pentagon memo suggested before the talks, would be a coordinated U.S.-China campaign to oust Kim, replacing him with someone less explosive. In the State Department, this notion was met with snickers, clearly seen as an unlikely eventuality. Look for fewer snickers in China this week...
...China?the weak link in any anti-Kim lynch mob?the talks were especially arresting. Chinese officials have long opined that North Korea may not actually have nukes. That's now a harder pose to strike. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, according to news reports, was "appalled" by North Korea's performance, and China was said to be anxious about the possibility of "war on our border...
...take even more in the way of hostile pyrotechnics from Pyongyang to convince Seoul to join the U.S. Defense Department's North Korean-regime-change club. But don't put it past Kim. Nobody has a greater knack for alienating friends and enemies alike...
...proudly independent player, determined to mollify North Korea through economic and diplomatic engagement. But Roh's "Peace and Prosperity Policy" toward the North won't play well in the post-Iraq war White House, where hard-liners are deeply skeptical that bargaining with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will be any more fruitful than bargaining with Saddam Hussein?a suspicion confirmed late last month when talks between the U.S. and North Korea in Beijing ended acrimoniously...
...economic aid as the price for giving it up. "They're up to their old blackmail game," Bush said. Rather than pay up, Washington hawks now hope to persuade China, Japan and South Korea to rein in Pyongyang with economic sanctions, perhaps even a blockade that would halt Kim's arms and drug sales, the regime's main sources of hard currency...