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...rule. A wicked thought occurred to me at the time, and recurred last week, as the Bush Administration continued its foolish refusal to meet with the North Koreans: Why not do the one thing that would most discomfort, and perhaps even destabilize, the precarious regimes of the Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong Il and - for that matter - Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi? Why not just say, "We hereby grant you diplomatic recognition, whether you like it or not. We're naming an ambassador. We're lifting the embargo. We're going to let our companies sell you all sorts of cool...
...arguments against Fatal Huggery are obvious. Why encourage and legitimize evildoers? Why allow Kim Jong Il - the Michael Jackson of world leaders - to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel...
...LATEST COVER STORY South Korea's New President Profile: Man of the Moment Interview: Roh talks to TIME Viewpoint: Squeezing Kim Jong Il March 3, 2003 Issue Past Issues North Korea's Nukes Feb. 24, 2003 ----------------- Child Prodigies Feb. 17, 2003 ----------------- Farewell, Columbia Feb. 10, 2003 ----------------- CIA's Secret Army Feb. 03, 2003 ----------------- Bali Confessions Jan. 27, 2003 ----------------- Mind & Body Jan. 20, 2003 ----------------- North Korea Jan. 13, 2003 ----------------- People of the Year...
...already be too late for that. "The atrocious way they died was bad enough," says Kim Hae Jung, a 43-year-old real estate agent who lost her brother-in-law. "But after they died, they were treated with less regard than animals. They were thrown in the trash." With 285 people still missing, the death toll could rise further. But fires inside the carriages reached 1,000?C, making even DNA identification impossible in some cases. For families still waiting for news, hope is quickly turning into anger...
...Kim Orcutt, assistant curator of American art at the Fogg, says the lithographs are remarkable because of their formal excellence...