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South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung may have picked a bad week to come to Washington. Having suffered some highly visible setbacks on Iraq policy, the more hawkish elements of the Bush administration weren't about to start sending flowers to their favorite global bogeyman, North Korea's President Kim Jong Il. And so, despite Secretary of State Colin Powell's suggestion the previous day that the new administration may consider pursuing a dialogue with North Korea begun by the Clinton administration, President Bush Wednesday bluntly rejected his South Korean visitor's suggestion that the U.S. quickly resume talks...
...Kim's message to Bush was that the window of opportunity for reaching a deal to end North Korea's missile program in exchange for technical and economic aid was fast closing, but the U.S. president said there'd be no talks with Pyongyang anytime soon. The reason? "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements," explained Bush...
...South Koreans, whose protection provides the rationale for the massive deployment of U.S. forces on the Korean peninsula, see things differently. President Kim was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his "Sunshine Policy," which has opened an unprecedented rapprochement between the two states created by the Korean War. And the South Korean Kim came to Washington to seek Washington's blessing for - and involvement in - his continued efforts to reduce tensions along the last Cold War frontier. But President Bush and his advisers were plainly not going to sign their Korea policy over to a South Korean dove...
...Still, Kim's visit provided further evidence of the foreign policy fault lines within the new administration, with the hawks fighting back against what they perceive as a dovish streak in the secretary of state, while a novice President quickly learns that the plain-speakin' style of the campaign trail can be disastrous in international affairs...
...many letters he allegedly sent to Moscow, Hanssen claimed that what he really wanted was to be a double agent, like the British intellectual turned mole Kim Philby. "I'd decided on this course when I was 14. I'd read Philby's book," he wrote (although Philby's autobiography was not published until 1968, when Hanssen was 24) in a rambling discourse last March to the SVR, Russia's foreign-arm successor to the Soviet-era KGB. "My only hesitations were my security concerns under uncertainty. I hate uncertainty...