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...Bush doctrine must cope with a much harder test. In the months since October 2002, the regime in North Korea has taken a series of stunningly provocative steps that represent a flagrant challenge to the Bush Administration’s nonproliferation policy. While Washington was obsessed with Iraq, Pyongyang admitted that it has an illicit nuclear weapons program, threw out international inspectors, formally renounced its international obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), took possession of and relocated nuclear materials that were formerly under international supervision and restarted the nuclear reactor that will enable it to produce more weapons-grade...
...attack. But, as President Bush has commented emphatically, succumbing to blackmail by negotiating a deal that appears to reward Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear behavior is equally unattractive; indeed, the President has deemed this unacceptable. Washington has placed some hope in the possibility that multilateral pressure might bring Pyongyang to its senses and has viewed China—North Korea’s main international supporter and essential provider of economic aid—as the key player in forcing a satisfactory resolution of the crisis. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration has voiced expectations that the example of America?...
...Indeed, some analysts say that by agreeing to last month's talks with Pyongyang, Washington was merely buying time to build international support for hardball measures. Bush wants the United Nations Security Council to take up the matter of the North's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a step that could lead to international economic sanctions. The U.S. will have an easier time in the U.N. if Seoul and Washington present a united front. About to embark on his first visit to the White House, Roh must have a sense of what he's up against...
...During talks last month between Pyongyang and Seoul, South Korean officials warned they might, in fact, make their own economic aid contingent on better behavior. According to a South Korean official, the message from Seoul was "we will no longer automatically supply everything to our brethren. We will not provide a blank check." Adds the official: "I think they got the message...
...Bomb already?and insisted on a U.S. security guarantee, normalized relations and economic aid as the price for giving it up. "They're up to their old blackmail game," Bush said. Rather than pay up, Washington hawks now hope to persuade China, Japan and South Korea to rein in Pyongyang with economic sanctions, perhaps even a blockade that would halt Kim's arms and drug sales, the regime's main sources of hard currency...