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...smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I also recall getting into heated debates and insisting that North Korea was the actual case of a dictator working toward acquiring WMD. While the Bush Administration pursued a war in Iraq, the smoking gun turned into a mushroom cloud in Pyongyang. The Bush Administration has failed miserably in addressing the North Korean threat, and its policies (or lack thereof) have made us all less safe...
...Pyongyang softens amid sanctions...
...There is no need for Japan to participate in [the talks] because it is no more than a state of the U.S." NORTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, suggesting Japan be excluded from six-party talks over the North's nuclear-weapons program. Pyongyang agreed to return to negotiations last week, but lashed out over Japan's refusal to accept the North as a nuclear power...
...Japan there may be some trepidation over the new round of six-party talks. It won't escape the notice of officials in Tokyo that Japanese diplomats were apparently not involved in the talks that brought Pyongyang back to the table. Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose term started just two weeks before Kim's nuclear test, has built support with the Japanese public by standing firm against North Korea. If Abe is seen to go soft, he could lose his conservative political base, already shaken by his recent diplomatic overtures to Beijing and Seoul. While...
...Indeed, sowing discord among the five parties could be North Korea's chief reason to resume the negotiations. Despite U.N. sanctions, South Korea, which favors engagement with the North, has been slow to reduce aid and trade with Pyongyang, while the South Korean public is just as likely to blame President Bush for the nuclear standoff as it is Kim Jong Il. Even after the test, China and South Korea still fear a collapsing North Korea more than they do a nuclear one, while Japan and the U.S. would like nothing more than to see Kim gone. Russia...