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...June. North Korea has been the holdout. It may have been no coincidence, then, that a story appeared in the New York Times the morning before the President's address claiming the U.S. has evidence that North Korea sold nuclear material to Libya?a subtle attempt, perhaps, to nudge Pyongyang back to the negotiating table...
...After each of the three previous six-party meetings, which began in 2003, North Korea has left the talks complaining about Washington's insincerity and hostility. Pyongyang says there's no point continuing the meetings until that animosity is renounced or toned down. A more practical reason for not resuming talks was that the North Koreans were taking a wait-and-see attitude pending the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections. Now that Bush is back for a second term, there's every reason for the North to resume the talks, if only to receive the gifts that China...
...axis of evil," whose nuclear ambitions present the U.S. with two of its biggest foreign policy quandaries. At a moment when the international community is focused on a potential showdown with Iran, a TIME investigation has revealed that Khan's network played a bigger role in helping Tehran and Pyongyang than had been previously disclosed. U.S. intelligence officials believe Khan sold North Korea much of the material needed to build a bomb, including high-speed centrifuges used to enrich uranium and the equipment required to manufacture more of them. Officials are worried--but have not yet seen proof--that Khan...
Meanwhile, Khan expanded. He made contact with the North Korean government as early as 1993, according to Pakistani investigators. In the late 1990s he began shipping centrifuges and the means to make them--"the whole package," as a U.S. intelligence official put it--in bulk to Pyongyang, sometimes aboard Pakistani military cargo planes. Pakistani officials say Khan has testified that the North Koreans were so appreciative that in 1999 they took him on a private tour of their nuclear facilities during his visit to Pyongyang. U.S. and IAEA investigators believe that Khan also traveled to Saudi Arabia and Egypt...
...Beijing to reopen Rev. Kim's case. Kim Mun Soo, a lawmaker from the opposition Grand National Party who visited Yanji earlier this month, says China has information about the pastor's disappearance that it hasn't shared with South Korea. Kim said Seoul should also get tough with Pyongyang, which still holds an estimated 468 kidnapped South Koreans. Says Kim: "It is the fundamental duty of a state to protect its citizens. South Korea has been terrible at this." Friends of Rev. Kim are losing hope that he is still alive after five years. "He may have become...