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Mistrust of North Korea has been a bedrock U.S. policy since war on the Korean peninsula ended in 1953. Pyongyang's erratic behavior consistently confirms such skepticism. The latest confrontation was quite deliberate, says a senior Bush aide. For more than two years, the CIA had been collecting shards of information suggesting that North Korea was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, despite the 1994 Agreed Framework requiring Pyongyang to freeze its program to extract plutonium from reprocessed reactor fuel. (The CIA has long thought that North Korea made--and kept--one or two plutonium-based bombs from before...
...stakes couldn't be higher. War with North Korea, Bush told his aides, was out of the question. He could not let Kim alter the fragile balance of power on the Korean peninsula, where 37,000 U.S. troops stand across the DMZ from a million-man army close enough to destroy Seoul, South Korea's capital, in a blitzkreig. By Bush's own doctrine of pre-emption, the U.S. should strike against any state with weapons of mass destruction and an irresponsible dictator. But the consequences of attacking Pyongyang are unacceptable. What Bush apparently never anticipated was a brazen admission...
...Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang Zemin visited President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch for talks that were seen as the Chinese President's swansong before his retirement, expected later this year. The two leaders said they opposed nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, and Jiang said there'd been a frank exchange on Taiwan. Earlier, he called for greater Sino-American cooperation, but emph-asised Beijing's independence of Washington's aims, quoting Confucius: "In human relationships, a gentleman seeks harmony but not uniformity." MEANWHILE The Mile-Wide Club Ever felt the person sitting next...
...rally for a new round of violence. With the Pentagon planning to move as many as 250,000 troops into the region in advance of a possible invasion, some experts believe that al-Qaeda will call for a renewed jihad against the U.S. presence in and around the Arabian Peninsula--one of the original objects of bin Laden's wrath...
...agreement with the U.S. According to an account of Kelly's Pyongyang talks revealed to CNN, Kang Suk-ju told the U.S. official something to the effect of, "Your president called us a member of the axis of evil ... Your troops are deployed on the Korean Peninsula ... Of course, we have a nuclear program...