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...That other McCain aides have kept quiet for so long about the real Palin owes to two factors. The first is loyalty to McCain. With his hatred of infighting, desire to put the campaign behind him and perhaps awareness of his complicity in foisting Palin on the world, the erstwhile Republican nominee has encouraged his people to stifle their criticisms of her and play down their disagreements with her, even though the direction for the party that Palin represents is diametrically opposed to McCain's vision. (See the fashion looks of Sarah Palin...
...industry and agriculture to improve the lives of its citizens. And in a passage carefully noted in both Washington and in the South Korean capital, Seoul, the message read: "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between [North Korea] and the U.S.A." (See pictures of North Korea's rubber-stamp elections...
...belligerence with a willingness to talk, Pyongyang's current sound track has been greeted warily in Seoul and Washington. Intense wariness is now deeply ingrained in the diplomats now dealing with the regime. Several senior South Korean officials tell TIME that, at best, they are now, as one put it, "skeptically optimistic, if that makes any sense...
...good news, sources in Seoul say, is that the South Korean government and the Obama Administration are "not only on the same page, but on the same paragraph" when it comes to dealing with the North, as one adviser to President Lee Myung Bak put it recently. One senior diplomat adds that his "gut instinct" is that the North will in fact return relatively soon to the nuclear bargaining table. But even if that happens, Seoul concurs with Bosworth's assessment, on returning from Pyongyang last month, that the sequencing of reciprocal steps by the two sides is likely...
...Pyongyang's Jan. 11 statement seeking a peace treaty only reinforced the impression that the North may want to put the cart before the horse. U.S. officials, sources tell TIME, have tried to communicate to Pyongyang via its key ally, China, that it's nukes first, then everything else (economic and energy aid, negotiations toward a peace treaty, formal diplomatic ties...