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Since then, the notoriously secretive North Korean government has become increasingly impervious to American diplomatic pressure. With its recent underground nuclear test, Kim Jong Il’s regime has effectively taken the possibility of most sorts of military action from the U.S. off the table, and has rendered even diplomatic alternatives more complicated...
...stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away North Korea's nuclear program, one deal at a time...
...always good to be reminded by our German friends that democracy can't be imposed by military force. Perhaps the Japanese would like to weigh in too? Actually, they wouldn't. Living next door to nuclear-armed dictatorships, and not having succumbed as thoroughly to postmodern otherworldliness, the Japanese democracy is in fact building up its military and strengthening its U.S. alliance. Still, the German Foreign Minister was simply expressing, in a particularly un-self-reflective way, an increasingly common point of view on both sides of the Atlantic...
...gases without large job losses or high costs to industry and consumers. As well, some experts think that with the right settings, a carbon market can curb energy demand and lead to the take-up of new energy technologies (that is, as the Task Group said, "clean coal," gas, nuclear power and renewable sources...
...With demand for electricity in Australia expected to double by 2050, the way it is produced will have to change. A report to the Prime Minister last December on nuclear power, by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski, estimated that the additional electricity-producing capacity to drive the nation at mid-century will need to use technology with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions (to keep emissions from this sector at today's levels). The Task Group is now taking submissions from the community and will report to the P.M. by the end of May. "Given the scale of the challenge faced...