Word: nuclearization
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After nine months of nuclear and long-range missile tests, the detention of two American journalists, and a barrage of hostile rhetoric, Kim Jong Il now has the U.S. right where he has wanted it all along - ready to sit across the bargaining table, one on one. The Obama administration said late last week it is willing to negotiate directly with Pyongyang, if only, in the words of State Department spokesman PJ Crowley, to get back to the six-party format invented during the George W. Bush administration...
...enlisted South Korea, Japan, China and Russia as its negotiating partners. Pyongyang has always wanted to deal directly with Washington, as it did in 1994 when it negotiated the so-called "Agreed Framework" with the Clinton administration - the first instance in which Pyongyang agreed to stop work on its nuclear program. Kim has always wanted to deal with the biggest dog on the block, both for reasons of international prestige (see the former pariah now sitting down with the world foremost power), as well as to marginalize its neighbors South Korea and Japan. From North Korea's perspective, Obama...
...talk to North Korea about, and in what order? Other than acceding to the direct talks - which the Administration had hinted upon taking office that it was amenable to - it has hit the same notes that the Bush administration did. Only after a verifiable disabling of Pyongyang's nuclear program - in return for economic and energy assistance, both part of the 1994 agreement - would it move on to discussions about "normalizing relations." Diplomatic sources in east Asia say the U.S., in concert with its allies, is now talking about exactly what to put on the table, and in what order...
...started negotiating with North Korea over 15 years ago, hawks and doves within succeeding administrations have always wrangled over a central dilemma: Are the North Koreans bribeable? That is, are there sufficient economic as well as diplomatic incentives available to get the North to give up its nuclear program for good? A recent policy paper from the Asia Society and the University of California that has circulated in Washington discusses the ways in which "the economic dimension" can "induce and reinforce the peaceful transformation of the DPRK into a country that can provide adequate livelihood for its people and engage...
...concrete and 12,000 tons of steel. They crowned their work with a partly buried, 123-ft.-tall pyramid containing the system's key radar. Each of its four "eyes" had sprinklers to wash away any potential radioactive debris from collisions between the nearby nuclear-tipped interceptors and incoming Soviet missiles...