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Ukraine Joins Nuke Treaty...
...Nuke the world of boxing back to the Stone Age. Two-thirds (two-thirds?) of the heavyweight championship is in the possession of a 46-year old pile of blubber with just enough strength and endurance for one killer right (and nothing more); the other third belongs to the former sparring partner of a convicted felon...
South Korea today announced that it wants to do business with its one-time arch enemy and neighbor to the north. The South Korean government says it's lifting a 50-year-old ban on direct trade with and investment in North Korea because of theOctober nuke deal brokered by the U.S. The new trade opportunity gives South Korean businesses access to cheap labor and North Korea a flood of previously unavailable consumer goods. What's more, the initiative suggests that the two countries are finally ready to end their battles, says TIME State Department correspondentJ.F.O. McAllister. "There's been...
...tension between the two countries a thing of the past. Chief U.S. negotiator Robert L. Gallucci and his North Korean counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, penned the documents at North Korea's diplomatic mission to the United Nations today. Included in the deal: North Korea opens up its hush-hush nuke program in return for technology for modern reactors, aid and diplomatic links with...
...time for celebration? Yes and no, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's the best deal we could have gotten," he says. The fly in the ointment: inspections into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...