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...North Korea Raises the Stakes Analysis: More tough talk, another provocation. What's behind Pyongyang's threat to test a nuclear weapon...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...scored with the Japanese public by quickly meting out tough economic punishment to North Korea, banning its imports and barring its ships from Japanese ports, ahead of sweeping sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council last week. In addition, to counteract fears that Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities could touch off a regional arms race, Abe made it clear that Japan had no intention of developing nuclear weapons?thus drawing Japan closer to its key ally and military protector, the U.S., while reassuring China that North Asia's balance of power was unchanged...
...Lashing out at Kim's pariah regime was a relatively easy call for Abe, who has profited by using Pyongyang as a punching bag before. The Prime Minister might still be an ordinary Diet member if he hadn't raised his profile by becoming a vocal advocate for Japanese abducted by Pyongyang?an emotive issue in Japan after North Korea admitted to the kidnappings in 2002. Kim's bomb test was another political gift of sorts. "We are convinced that Kim could be a supporter of Abe," says a half-joking Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, the shadow foreign minister for the opposition...
...they could do to North Korea's. In the mid-1990s, North Korea suffered a severe famine that lasted for several years and left perhaps hundreds of thousands dead. Although increased trade and relatively good harvests in the past couple of years mean the current situation is fairly stable (Pyongyang doesn't publish reliable economic statistics, but most estimates put GDP growth in recent years in the 1%-to-2% range), the North remains dependent on outside food aid. According to the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, conditions could deteriorate quickly. A forthcoming report warns that "a perfect storm...