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...admission did more than just confirm long-held suspicions in Washington that North Korea, a charter member in Bush's "axis of evil," had pursued weapons of mass destruction despite a 1994 agreement to stop. The revelation also jerked a preoccupied world to attention. Why, everyone wondered, was Kim confessing now? And why had Bush pressed the issue, when he was already immersed in two major global confrontations? No wonder the Administration sat on the news for 12 days while it scrambled to figure out how to downsize the crisis. By the time the Bush team went public with...
...suspended since early 2001. But when Assistant Secretary of State Kelly took off for North Korea in early October, the purpose of his mission had changed dramatically. The CIA had briefed Bush in August about its new intelligence on Pyongyang's secret enrichment program. The President decided to confront Kim with the evidence, but the Administration first shared it with several congressional leaders and key countries that the U.S. would need to help lean on Pyongyang: Japan, South Korea, China and Russia...
...stakes couldn't be higher. War with North Korea, Bush told his aides, was out of the question. He could not let Kim alter the fragile balance of power on the Korean peninsula, where 37,000 U.S. troops stand across the DMZ from a million-man army close enough to destroy Seoul, South Korea's capital, in a blitzkreig. By Bush's own doctrine of pre-emption, the U.S. should strike against any state with weapons of mass destruction and an irresponsible dictator. But the consequences of attacking Pyongyang are unacceptable. What Bush apparently never anticipated was a brazen admission...
...conundrum of Kim, who succeeded his father Kim Il Sung eight years ago as North Korea's absolute ruler, has flummoxed Washington for years. The xenophobic leader can veer from aggressive hostility to quiet bids to mend relations with the outside world, particularly if other nations help leapfrog his poverty-stricken people into the modern era. Like his father, when Kim has been most desperate for foreign aid, he has used the rattle of nukes to frighten the U.S. and its allies into buying...
...quell North Korea's malign power, gladly put up most of the cash. Critics complained the U.S. was giving in to nuclear extortion. North Korea, they warned, would unveil a threatening new capability whenever it wanted more aid. The latest disclosure proved the hard-liners right about one thing: Kim could not be trusted to live up to his agreements...