Word: koreans
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...would have to be worked out before they could speak of a breakthrough but that the U.S. has "moved closer" to its goals. They expect to close a deal soon under which the U.S. would call off its annual "Team Spirit" military exercises in South Korea, whereafter the North Koreans would allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume routine inspections of their seven declared facilities -- but not the two sites they are trying to keep secret. At the same time, the North would begin talks with the South on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula...
...that finding is true, Clinton is on the edge of a major, long-term foreign crisis that could make Somalia and Haiti look like the small skirmishes they really were. He will have to decide how to make good his pledge -- not only to keep the North Koreans from producing nuclear weapons but also to take away any they might have built and hidden. The solutions are neither easy nor obvious. Proposals for U.N. economic sanctions probably would be blocked in the Security Council by China, Korea's next-door neighbor, which considers such pressure unacceptable. Clinton might be tempted...
Bargaining on these central issues is still only prospective. The U.S.-North Korean talks at the U.N. are just a hopeful prelude to yet another round of high-level negotiations. The agreement Pyongyang and Washington were talking about last week is simply a reprise of one made last summer, when Pyongyang told the U.S. it would permit routine inspections and resume talks with South Korea. The North never fulfilled those promises, and it must do so in order to get to the next, third, substantive round of talks with the U.S. That is where the key issues...
...North Korean Nukes...
...North Korean negotiators were closer to an agreement in their talks at the United Nations on international inspection of North Korea's nuclear facilities. No one is certain whether the politically isolated state possesses a nuclear bomb, but a new, classified CIA study says that North Korea has probably already built one or two atomic weapons. Meanwhile, China said it would not support sanctions against North Korea...