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...years. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is a dying man. He has not prepared his 24-year old son and heir, Kim Jong-Un, for succession. Now, the world is stuck with a boy-king who is ill-trained to fend off power-hungry generals bred on Pyongyang??s “military first” policy. Such is the North Korea of nightmares, where nuclear weapons are not a carefully-kept international tease, but a valuable trump card in a close domestic power struggle...
...that time, American and South Korean officers were mulling military action to thwart Pyongyang??s nuclear ambitions...
...interest in a simultaneous military crisis with North Korea, nor does the military option seem as viable on the Korean Peninsula given the vulnerability of Seoul to North Korean attack. But, as President Bush has commented emphatically, succumbing to blackmail by negotiating a deal that appears to reward Pyongyang??s illicit nuclear behavior is equally unattractive; indeed, the President has deemed this unacceptable. Washington has placed some hope in the possibility that multilateral pressure might bring Pyongyang to its senses and has viewed China—North Korea’s main international supporter and essential provider...
...also reported that they have been reprocessing 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods to extract from them the plutonium to build still more weapons. (Western experts estimate that North Korean might be able to build as many as six additional weapons with the plutonium from these fuel rods.) Whether Pyongyang??s claims are true is not clear, but what is certain is that the North Koreans could hardly have concocted a more brazen affront to the Bush Doctrine. Moreover, Pyongyang??s threats of nuclear misbehavior must be taken seriously given its penchant for brinksmanship, its tendency...
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