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...official there in more than four years, seemed designed to take advantage of the positive opening. A statement from Hill read, "It is critical for the six parties to make up for lost time to restore momentum to achieving our agreed common goal, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula...
...full diplomatic embrace is on. U.S. envoy Christopher Hill made a surprise trip to Pyongyang on Thursday - the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the North in five years - in order to "move the process forward" and "make up for lost time" in the race to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, according to a State Department statement...
...with China as far and away its most important account in east Asia, and that it has no interest in toppling Kim or starting a war. That's a tough sell, many in the region say - us-against-the-world paranoia has been at the center of the North Korean regime since its founding in 1948. But the Chinese have pressed the notion on Kim, in part because China's President Hu Jintao believes what George W. Bush has told him on this score: that Washington seeks a deal with Kim, not open hostility...
...skeptics roll their eyes at these notions. They believe, simply, that the outside world - or at least, the diplomats in the outside world - has never been able to get it through its head that Kim Jong Il, as head of the North Korean regime, is simply interested in his obstreperous hold on power. Period. He doesn't give a whit about economic reform because it might come back and bite him - he watched democracy come to an increasingly prosperous South Korea, after all - and now will backtrack, delay and obfuscate until he finds an excuse...
...another disturbing reflection in Afghanistan of the early insurgent activities that eventually threw Iraq into bloody instability. The attack appears to have expressly targeted Afghanistan's fledgling police force, killing 35 police instructors, police officers and civilians and wounding more than 50, including two Japanese civilians and one Korean. The attack is the worst Kabul has seen since the fall of the Taliban...