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...Shahab-3 last summer, there have been indications, a top U.S. official says, that Tehran is giving North Korea telemetry and other data from its missile tests and that North Korea is using the data to make improvements in its own missile systems. In exchange, the official says, Pyongyang may be supplying Iran with engineering suggestions for further testing...
...point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China's top North Korea handler, who traveled to Pyongyang for talks on Saturday...
...North's recent announcement does put South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most...
...likely to be China, which has a history of doing exactly what Bush says he will not do: reward North Korean intransigence. When the nuclear crisis was heating up in the summer of 2003, China's Vice Foreign Minister, Dai Bingguo, visited North Korea to persuade Pyongyang to attend six-party talks. Shortly after Dai returned to Beijing, Pyongyang announced that China had promised a new aid package. That is precisely what the Bush Administration does not want to happen...
...Still, Washington is sending signals to the North that if it comes back to the six-party talks unconditionally, negotiations conceivably could yield real benefits for Pyongyang in the form of security guarantees from the U.S. and a host of economic rewards. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said last week that "staying away is a problem for North Korea," but there will be "benefits that they might anticipate from solving [the nuclear] issue." But U.S. officials concede that it's going to take time to get the five other participants?Japan and Russia being the other two powers?to come...