Word: nuclearism
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...seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many in the South, with a very shrewd appreciation of the likely costs of unification, dread a collapse of the North - and that Kim has shown himself able to use his possession of nuclear weapons as a way to coerce enough foreign tribute to preserve his regime. As Yoichi Funabashi, the editor in chief of Japan's Asahi Shimbun says in his fine new book The Peninsula Question: "The people of North and South Korea have confronted each other for more than half a century...
...Second, the potential for nuclear proliferation is one of the great dangers of the age, which is why it is so vital that there should be continued pressure on Pyongyang to verifiably dismantle its nuclear facilities. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged...
...counterfeiting and drug-running businesses. I have also written about legitimate South Korean businessmen who have invested there, hoping it's a low-wage alternative to China. And I have followed the seemingly endless permutations of Washington's fitful efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program. When, defiantly, North Korea set off a nuclear device in October 2006, I wrote a cover story for TIME on the pre-eminent security threat of the 21st century: nukes getting into the hands of guys like the Dear Leader and the terrorist groups and other rogue nations he does business...
...talking about. Kim Jong Il has run the place now for nearly 14 years. He has not, to date, shown himself to be an agent of change. He still runs a rogue regime, suspected recently of aiding Syria in building what Israeli intelligence believes to have been a nuclear-weapons facility before the Israelis destroyed it with air strikes last year. It exports narcotics, has been accused of counterfeiting $100 bills, hasn't come clean about the Japanese citizens it kidnapped - kidnapped! - over the decades, and still isn't living up to all the terms of last February's nuclear...
...from UT in front of the Texas Capitol: Barack Obama's. And there, hundreds of placards emblazoned "Change We Can Believe In" popped up from a crowd estimated between 15,000 and 20,000. Obama spun his magic in an hourlong speech that was lacking the wonkish details about nuclear proliferation and educational testing offered by Bill Clinton. The crowd was enthralled if not inspired...