Word: pyongyang
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...fundamental notion underlying U.S. diplomacy with Pyongyang since the Clinton era--a hawkish detour under George W. Bush notwithstanding--is that the North can be bribed. Yet the country's rhetoric since Obama's Inauguration has been vitriolic. It is possible that its most recent nuclear test will finally convince diplomats that the North Korea they see is the one they get: that perhaps on the question of nukes, it simply can't be bribed...
...this febrile environment, the military is said to have stepped up its influence in Pyongyang. A group of North Korean exiles has circulated a report saying that Kim has assured his generals that by 2012, the North will have achieved the status of a nuclear state, one with the ability to fit a warhead on a long-range missile...
...ultimate goal now is to be a full nuclear state," says Baek Seung Joo, director of the Center for Security and Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. If that's true, containment (not bribery) will need to become the focus of the outside world's diplomacy with Pyongyang--starting in Washington...
...about to enter graduate school, remembers well the rush of hope that overcame her nine years ago during the first summit between North and South Korea. As she watched then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korea's paramount leader Kim Jong Il shake hands in Pyongyang on television, Park believed the Cold War conflict on the Korean peninsula might finally come to an end. "We all thought that something was going to change right away," she recalls...
...today, her hopes have been dashed. Pyongyang's continued hostility towards South Korea has soured Park on the idea that engagement can resolve the six-decade conflict between the two Koreas, and left her feeling resentful towards her northern neighbor. "I feel like we've again been stabbed in the back," Park laments. (See pictures of North Korea's rubber-stamp elections...