Word: nuclearism
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...expecting Al Gore. However, your choice was correct. Recognition of Putin as a world leader has been long overdue. The West needs to engage him and work with him, not against him. Russia's importance in the world cannot be ignored. The country still has a big nuclear arsenal and substantial oil reserves. This is not the cold war, it is the 21st century. Majid Rauf, Lahore, Pakistan...
...prediction would have once been laughable. After all, North and South Korea are still technically at war, and in the autumn of 2006 Pyongyang's insular regime defied the world by testing a nuclear bomb. But since February 2007, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il struck a deal with the U.S., Japan, Russia, China and South Korea to begin dismantling his nuclear program in exchange for aid and normalized relations with Washington, there has been a burst of cooperation between the two Koreas. In mid-December, a direct rail link opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across...
...brink of a historic peace agreement with the U.S. - one that President George W. Bush, in his last year in office, appears to want desperately in order to shore up his controversial foreign-policy legacy. A deal between Washington and Pyongyang - predicated on the North verifiably giving up its nuclear-weapons program - would open diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time since the Korean War, and prompt Washington to remove North Korea from its list of states that support terrorism...
...five-year term.) In his first years in office, Roh was derided by many in Washington as an apologist for Kim Jong Il. Now, Bush has all but adopted the "Sunshine Policy" by promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program, as it had promised to do, the North is already dismantling its plutonium reactor at Yongbyon - which produced the fissile material for its small nuclear arsenal - under the eyes...
...what was clear, both in Bhutto Zardari's words and unsure delivery, is that this would-be savior of a Muslim nuclear state on the verge of disintegration is exactly what he appears to be: a teenager nowhere near ready to lead a student union, let alone a country. "Unless I can finish my education and develop enough maturity, I recognize that I will never be in a position to have sufficient wisdom to enter the political arena," Bhutto Zardari himself conceded...