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...aftermath of North Korea's unexpected long-range missile launch, the Chinese government quietly sent a senior envoy, former foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, to Pyongyang to express Beijing's displeasure. Tang cooled his heels for a couple of days, before finally meeting - briefly, diplomatic sources have said - with leader Kim Jong Il. Just three months later, in October 2006, North Korea again defied the world and tested a nuclear bomb for the first time...
...diplomacy with Pyongyang will need to change, starting in Washington. Now that the tremors of what South Korea's geological service today called the "man-made earthquake" in the North have died down, that's one issue President Obama will have to confront head-on. - with reporting from Stephen Kim in Seoul...
...Bush eventually overhauled his approach to the North entirely, and even after the launch of the long-range missile early last month, the Obama Administration was still dangling the possibility of eventual direct talks with the North - if Kim would first return to the multilateral six-party format in Beijing. On Korea, Obama heads the most openly dovish Administration in Washington since Jimmy Carter's. Yet the North's rhetoric since he was inaugurated has been vitriolic. It says it believes the U.S.'s "hostile policy toward the DPRK remains unchanged." (Read "North Korea Launch Poses Problem for Obama...
...North Korea they see is the one they get; that perhaps, on the question of nukes, it simply can't be bribed? North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant for their country. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Jong Il, now 67 and ailing after suffering a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging a succession now; foreign intelligence analysts believe he wants to pass power onto to his youngest son, 26-year...
...this febrile environment, the military is said to have stepped up its influence in Pyongyang. A group of North Korean exiles today circulated a report saying that after the missile launch last month, Kim visited a group of generals and assured them that by 2012 the North will achieve the status of a "nuclear state," one with the ability to fit a warhead on a long-range missile...