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...Provocative and reckless dialogue" were the words used by an editorial in North Korea's official Workers' Party newspaper to describe President George W. Bush's latest contribution to relations on the Korean peninsula...
...their talks with South Korean leaders scheduled for this week. This development is a move that South Korean officials called an embarrassment for their president, who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary hard work and diplomatic determination to fashion a peace declaration for the Korean peninsula...
Gomes publicly revealed that he was gay in 1991, after the conservative student journal The Peninsula published an issue denouncing homosexuality...
...veterans who are not inclined to trust North Korea or China, which remains the behind-the-scenes sponsor of Korean rapprochement. They suspect that if Beijing managed to resolve the Korean conflict, it would remove Washington's rationale for stationing close to 40,000 troops on the Korean peninsula, between China and Japan - and that, the hawks fear, could dramatically tip the regional strategic balance in Beijing's favor...
...whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while the Bush mantra on the Middle East has been (as a corrective to Clinton) "We can't want peace more than the parties themselves," on the Korean peninsula they may be in danger of finding themselves wanting peace less than the very South Korean people they're ostensibly there to protect...