Word: pyongyang
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...proliferation to worry the West: the prospect of the unpredictable Kim Il Sung with an A-bomb. Fears that North Korea might build one have escalated recently since U.S. spy satellites detected construction of what may be a nuclear reprocessing plant in Yongbyon, 56 miles north of the capital, Pyongyang. Such a unit would enable North Korea to produce plutonium, the raw ingredient for nuclear weapons...
...Pyongyang has signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, but so far Kim's government has refused to fulfill its obligation to allow inspections. Washington has repeatedly asked Moscow to use its relationship with Kim to bring him around; U.S. officials say the Soviets promise to keep pushing Pyongyang to comply but reportedly add that their influence over the eccentric Kim is strictly limited...
...democracy, have outlasted two principal 20th century competitors for the hearts and minds of Western men. "Fascism was destroyed as a living ideology by World War II," Fukuyama writes. As for Marxism-Leninism, he notes that "while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang or Cambridge," no large state that espouses it as an ideology even pretends to be in the vanguard of history. Witness, as evidence, the glasnost-inspired admissions of economic failure and bureaucratic bungling that emanate almost daily from Gorbachev's Moscow...
...Koreans expressed little interest in a summit but suggested that the Prime Ministers hold talks on such long-standing Northern demands as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula. The Roh government would have preferred to start discussions on less contentious topics, but went along with the Pyongyang proposal. Said Roh: "There are changes in the North that cannot be easily seen. I think we will have a summit meeting in the not too distant future...
...reunification of North and South. Since nearly all Southerners yearn for a united country, the students found themselves setting the pace again. On July 7, Roh attempted to maneuver his administration into a leading role in the reunification drive with proposals aimed at a thaw in relations with Pyongyang, but the government of Kim Il Sung, reluctant to appear upstaged, responded coolly. Low-level talks since then in the peace village of Panmunjom have stalled. Last week Pyongyang formally announced that it would boycott the Olympics...