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...possibility of deploying a multinational force. The conflict began after Ugandan troops pulled out of the region as part of a peace deal to end five years of civil war. Getting Ahead NORTH KOREA In what appears to be a major coup in Washington's diplomatic battle with Pyongyang over nuclear weapons, the CIA last month recruited a foreign nuclear scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source told TIME. The scientist provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are," one U.S. official said...
...shock admission, made in an informal arena, may have been stereotypical Pyongyang disinformation calculated to gain bargaining leverage. The North's envoys "are certainly obnoxious," a senior U.S. State Department official said after the talks ended. But claiming to have joined the nuclear club is a dangerous gambit that could cost Kim the few allies he has - and it's an especially risky tactic to use against the take-no-prisoners Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Before the week was out, the White House said it would rally its allies to support international economic sanctions against the North...
...With no clear grounds for compromise, the standoff could take years to resolve - if the two sides can even keep talking. North Korea wants security guarantees and aid from the U.S. Washington wants "a verifiable and irreversible end" to nuclear-weapons development before it offers Pyongyang much of anything. A diplomatic solution seems in some ways even more unattainable with North Korea than it was with Iraq. And trying to impose regime change on a nuclear-armed rogue state seems unthinkable. A quick, clean surgical strike to take out the Yongbyon nuclear facility would not end the weapons threat...
...attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden sword to lop off the limbs of an effigy of a U.S. soldier. "North Koreans' loyalty to Kim Jong Il is stronger than that of Iraqis for Saddam," said Kim Sik, a former university professor in North Korea...
...Administration seems inclined to find ways of pressuring North Korea—by urging the Chinese to cut aid, by interdicting North Korea’s illicit traffic in arms and drugs—so that the crisis can be resolved by coercion rather than bribery. So far, though, Pyongyang has responded to pressure with escalation rather than concession. If neither diplomacy nor pressure succeeds, then the options are reduced to two: either deploy the military or live with a nuclear North Korea. Only one of these options is consistent with the Bush Doctrine. Here, then, is a classic public...