Word: korean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since then, the notoriously secretive North Korean government has become increasingly impervious to American diplomatic pressure. With its recent underground nuclear test, Kim Jong Il’s regime has effectively taken the possibility of most sorts of military action from the U.S. off the table, and has rendered even diplomatic alternatives more complicated...
After almost five years and virtually no progress towards the stabilization of the Korean Peninsula, the Six Party talks seem to have resulted, after just a few months, in the shutdown of the nuclear plant in Yongbyon. But, perhaps more importantly, this agreement was effected through the joint efforts of the U.S. and China. This agreement represents an incremental and preliminary change, to be sure, but a promising...
...Administration can't be accused of overhyping what it got in Beijing. This was not a comprehensive solution that could bring about a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Under the pact, North Korea agreed to shut down within 60 days its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, where it's believed to have produced the fissile material needed to make the six to 10 nuclear weapons Kim is estimated to possess. Pyongyang has also promised to allow international inspectors into the country to verify compliance. In return, the North is to receive an emergency shipment of fuel oil from the U.S., China, Russia...
Rice and other foreign ministers plan to meet in Beijing in two months to assess whether both sides have lived up to their initial promises. If they have, Rice says she will meet face to face with her North Korean counterpart for the first time during Bush's presidency. Those meetings could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away...
...past few months, Gittoes' drawings have portrayed a less particular and more generalized kind of horror. His Exhausted Still Walking, 2006, gives the impression of war as a spiraling, replicating beast. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gittoes has been meeting with Korean animators to help turn his diaries into a graphic novel and feature film. The artist sees this as all part of a larger multimedia project, to be called Night Vision. It was while traveling with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia 14 years ago that Gittoes tried on his first pair of night-vision goggles-complaining in his diary that...