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...menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement was signed, Clinton assured the world that the deal was "the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula...
...cheaper but more reliable domestic and regional market, short-term prices in many destinations (but by no means all) are falling to almost unbelievable lows. Post-SARS, regional visitors appear to be returning to Hong Kong faster than anyone expected; Arthur Kiong, director of marketing at the Peninsula Hotel, says that in recent weeks he has seen "a huge upsurge in the market from mainland China and Taiwan," where most of Hong Kong's tourism growth has come from since the handover in 1997. Perhaps Hong Kong is uniquely lucky to have large markets on its doorstep; in any case...
...soldiers replied a minute later with K3 machine guns, firing 17 rounds back across the DMZ. It was the first exchange of fire since late 2001 by forces that have remained technically at war since 1953. It was also the latest sign of a deepening crisis on the Korean peninsula--and one that involves ordnance far more deadly than bullets...
...time, Kim Dae Jung, who had pursued a "sunshine" policy toward North Korea, urged caution and more direct talks between the North and the U.S. Pyongyang's longtime protector, China, refused to support U.N. sanctions against the North despite its concerns about a nuclear-arms race on the peninsula...
...support, stopping North Korea's arms traffic is dangerous. Pyongyang has repeatedly threatened to attack South Korea if economic sanctions are imposed. In a typically bellicose statement sent to the U.N. Security Council on June 27, North Korea warned that U.S.-backed sanctions or blockades would "return the Korean peninsula to a state...