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...harbored scarcely concealed hopes that they would soon be rid of Bush. As the ballots came in, they recognized that they had miscalculated?badly. South Korea's Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...
...President Bush will be under pressure from China and South Korea to make concessions to Pyongyang, in the hope that it trades its nukes for massive amounts of aid. Seoul's increasingly close relationship with the North will make it harder for Washington to nail down a deal that leaves Kim Jong Il no wriggle room. But the new Administration is unlikely to back down from the position that any deal has to shutter North Korea's nuclear program for good...
...count of desertion, one of aiding the enemy, two of soliciting others to desert and four charges of encouraging disloyalty, Jenkins came to court with a pretrial agreement in which he would plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy. (He taught English to military cadets in Pyongyang from 1981 to 1985.) In exchange, he would receive a guaranteed maximum of 30 days' confinement. During the proceedings, Sergeant Jenkins filled in many of the missing gaps of his life, explaining why he decided to desert to North Korea, the first 15 years of material and emotional hardship during which...
...schools. The abductees returned to Japan for a 10-day visit that wound up being permanent after they declined to return, but Jenkins had stayed behind in the North with his two daughters. In the past two years, Soga has become a heroine in Japan. When Koizumi returned to Pyongyang a second time, he personally told Jenkins he would do everything he could to assure that he and his family could live together quietly in Japan. Again Jenkins resisted, due to pressure from his North Korean handlers. Japanese officials then started to press the U.S. to treat him leniently...
...Taking the stand late in the trial, Soga declared Jenkins a good father and described the harsh conditions in which the family lived while in the North. Jenkins said he decided to leave Pyongyang to reunite his daughters with their mother and ensure they could live their lives in freedom. He insists that he arrived in Tokyo planning to plead guilty to absolutely everything. "I have been a good father, and a good husband," he wrote in a statement read by Culp. "In many ways, I guess I was trying to make up for having done such a bad thing...