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Here's a no-brainer prediction for 2007: North Korean negotiators will spend the year driving their American counterparts crazy. They will also manage to squeeze some concessions out of the U.S. while giving nothing substantial away themselves, and in the meantime continue developing an arsenal of nuclear weapons. That may sound a little pessimistic; after all, Pyongyang did return to the negotiating table this week after boycotting the talks or nearly a year. But after the resumed six-party talks aimed at bringing the North's nuclear program to an end concluded in Beijing, Friday, it was depressingly clear...
...Clinton Administration in 1994 as understandable - even predictable. Pyongyang signed away its plutonium reprocessing plant and in return was supposed to get a bunch of things in return, including diplomatic recognition from the United States, and two light water reactors for electric power generation from a U.S.-Japanese-South Korean?led consortium. But not much was delivered: The first of the reactors was supposed to have been finished by 2003, but by the year 2000 was nowhere close to being constructed. Only at the tail end of the Clinton Administration was there any real move toward a diplomatic warming...
...nuclear program, two of the most important voices in the national debate belong not to politicians or diplomats, but to a 73-year-old retired salaryman and his wife. Shigeru and Sakie Yokota's only daughter, Megumi, was abducted on her way home from school by a North Korean agent in 1977, one of many Japanese citizens believed to have been kidnapped by North Korea during the 1970s and 1980s. The Yokotas have become the face of an influential lobby of abductee families, whose insistence that Tokyo make no compromises with Pyongyang is one of the reasons why Japan will...
...programs if other countries agreed to blast its satellites into orbit for the purposes of "peaceful space exploration." Putin tried to play Kim's statement as a trump card in his case against Washington's plans to develop a national missile defense system. But, the following month, the North Korean leader told his South Korean guests: "I made this and other remarks as a passing, laughing matter. Putin did not respond at the time, but later seized on it firmly and things happened like that...
Russia's stated objective in the six-party talks is to bring North Korea back to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Although mindful of the need to keep talking to Pyongyang in search of "options of reaching a compromise solution to the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula" - to quote the Russian delegation chief, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alekseyev - Moscow has publicly chastised its unruly Cold War ally. Last October, the Russian Foreign Ministry referred to North Korean underground nuclear tests as a disregard "of the will of the world community, interested in non-nuclear status of the Korean peninsular...