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Does North Korea have the bomb, and if it does, what should be done about it? Kim Il Sung offered an essentially hollow capitulation last week, a promise to permit inspections of all but the key nuclear sites, which could settle the matter. So the world -- and Bill Clinton -- will be left to ponder those questions, perhaps indefinitely. What...
Second, understand the key players' views and motivations. South Korea, the presumptive first target of any attack from the North, is against backing Kim into a corner, a result it fears economic sanctions would accomplish. What Seoul wants least is responsibility for an economically devastated North. "We're content with a divided peninsula," says a South Korean diplomat familiar with the huge absorption costs borne by West Germany's embrace of the East...
...current confusion as an aid to retaining its preferred- trading status with the U.S. "Beijing figures its chances improve if it is perceived as the single source capable of constructively pressuring Pyongyang," explains an Administration sinologist, even though the evidence suggests China did little if anything to encourage Kim's latest maneuver...
...Administration got Korea wrong, the body-bag business became a growth industry because Harry Truman took too long to give 'em hell. "Drawing a line in the sand early is what you should have done in the '50s," says a Japanese diplomat. "Today you should be softer. Kim's bottom line is still his regime's survival, but victory is defined differently this time. Kim knows the way to win in the '90s is by joining the Asian economic boom rather than by armed conflict. Clinton has already made one mistake. He should have told Kim...
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