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...Some Washington hawks believe China might even be willing to help undermine the regime. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circulated a memo, leaked on the eve of talks, advocating that the U.S. team up with China to oust Kim through diplomatic pressure. "When push comes to shove, China may be willing to pull the plug," said Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington...
...where Dubya suffered a humiliating 19-point loss to John McCain in 2000, Rove has made sure that Bush loyalists control the state G.O.P. to forestall any potential rivals. When the press secretary gave a briefing last week on the President's trip to Ohio, it was from a memo prepared by Rove's shop...
...Gore in the polls for months during the 2000 election, but the instant he temporarily slipped behind, he dubbed himself the underdog. Bush is the overwhelming favorite this time, but his political team is already working hard to reset political expectations. Last week the G.O.P. leaked a deliberately gloomy memo from the President's pollster, Matthew Dowd. "President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly," Dowd wrote, "and in head to head polls in the months ahead President Bush will at times probably be behind potential Democrats." The party chairman e-mailed...
...alternative to war, a leaked Pentagon memo suggested before the talks, would be a coordinated U.S.-China campaign to oust Kim, replacing him with someone less explosive. In the State Department, this notion was met with snickers, clearly seen as an unlikely eventuality. Look for fewer snickers in China this week...
...South Korean government, the self-styled battered spouse and co-enabler in the North Korean nuclear drama? Seoul still seems to be in, well, denial. South Korean diplomats are letting it be known that there were "promising elements" in the package Pyongyang "left on the table" in Beijing. (Memo to South Korea: don't try to open that promising package when your loved ones are in the room...