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...Adrian Hong. The group has grown to over 70 chapters internationally over the two years. Edward Y. Lee ’08, the founder of the Harvard chapter, wrote in an e-mail that his motivations for organizing the group were the human rights violations committed by the North Korean regime, which he deemed “among the worst, if not the worst, in the world today.” “[M]illions of people are forced in the concentration camps, not unlike those of the Holocaust,” Lee wrote. “There they...
...United States and its allies, it is time to reevaluate their North Korea strategy if they seriously wish to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. The current approach has yielded little progress and has only given the North Koreans more time and more negotiation leverage. Instead, the US must realize that multilateral venues are not enough; to bring a peaceful solution, the Bush administration needs to be the principal actor in dealing with Kim Jong Il and take an active role uniting the other parties under common goals and tactics. Anything short of vigorous leadership will render the 2005 tentative agreement...
...lulled the Bush administration into thinking that it need not take proactive measures. China actually holds only limited sway over the independent-minded Kim Jong Il. The loss of Soviet support and China’s normalization with South Korea in the early 90s has transformed the Chinese-North Korean relationship into one built more on necessity and convenience than allegiance and trust. In fact, China fears pressuring North Korea and causing the collapse of the Kim regime, which would leave China responsible for dealing with a failed state on its border and the humanitarian disaster that would entail...
...order to strengthen its hand against North Korea, the US needs to quickly formulate a serious proposal that draws together most of the other parties at the negotiation table. Pyongyang has throughout the process skillfully played each of the six parties off another, encouraging Korean solidarity with South Korea and even playing up old historic ties with China. Only Japan has resisted North Korean overtures and remained solidly behind US efforts. Russia, China, and South Korea have been plodding along a middle path that has allowed North Korea more wiggle room in evading its responsibilities and promises. Washington can bring...
Such a plan would require the Bush administration to end once and for all its paralyzing schizophrenia on the North Korean issue. Competing factions within the Bush administration have severely hampered the US’s position, and the administration has failed to even produce a comprehensive plan until the summer of 2004. Delusional hardliners refuse to even approach the problem and instead simply hope that the regime will spontaneously collapse. Their tough talk may give the appearance of strength, but it accomplishes little...