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...counterfeiting and money laundering, so that a charter member of the Axis of Evil can be lured back to the six-party table. The outcome is still uncertain. If Pyongyang does get its frozen millions back, and the past is prologue, Kim will pocket the money, then detonate another nuke at the time and place of his choosing. He understands that the six-party farce provides ideal diplomatic cover for his unobstructed nuclear buildup. What the other players don't seem to understand-or in the case of an increasingly weakened Bush presidency, may fear to face-is that...
...year is 2010. Hillary Clinton is in the White House and planning her re-election on a tread-softly foreign policy platform after the debacle of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuke facilities launched in the last throes of President Bush's Administration. Bush himself, holed up on his ranch since 2008, is losing his battle with the bottle. Across the pond, having prolonged his departure from 10 Downing Street to within a few weeks of a general election, Blair resigns and ponders his next role. But on the sidelines, an unlikely campaign to bring the former PM before...
...have been stingingly critical of Kim in meetings with U.S. officials. Michael Green, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council until December 2005, says Hu had long indicated to visiting groups of Americans his skepticism about Kim's intentions. When the North finally tested a nuke last fall, China joined the U.S. and other regional powers in condemning Kim and supported a U.N. Security Council resolution sanctioning Pyongyang. Says a senior U.S. official: "If you asked experts several years ago, Could you imagine China taking these actions toward a longtime ally in cooperation with us and Japan...
...Feeling that it had been deceived, the North began a secret uranium enrichment program that violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the '94 deal. Confronted with evidence of this in October 2002, Pyongyang angrily announced it was restarting its plutonium-based nuke program, which it had frozen under the Agreed Framework, and expelled inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. Then, having been been named to President Bush's "Axis of Evil," and having watched the Bush Administration knock off Iraq, Kim Jong-il did the only thing he could do to guarantee no one would mess with...
...Nuke tests are naughty, not nice. So the U.S. plans to bar exports to North Korea of some of Dear Leader Kim's favorite toys, such as iPods, plasma TVs, Segway scooters and Harley-Davidsons...