Word: pushback
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...details have yet been provided, of course, and there may well be some pushback against the idea of offering guarantees to North Korea from Vice President Dick Cheney and other hawkish elements in the administration when the presidential entourage returns to Washington. And the initiative will mean little if North Korea goes ahead and tests a weapon in the comings weeks or months. But for now, the U.S. response to the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is following more familiar Cold War doctrines of containment, deterrence and engagement, rather than the "preemption" doctrine that got its first real-world...