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...American troops secure Baghdad—the capital of one nation in President Bush’s “Axis of Evil”—a group of scholars and diplomats gathered to discuss the status of another: Pyongyang...
...President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel groups. The main opposition group, called the Rally for Republicans, and three rebel factions that control the country's north and parts of the west, said that security concerns prevented them from traveling to the capital, Yamoussoukro. Nuclear Fears NORTH KOREA Tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program remained high as the U.S. resumed spy-plane flights near North Korea and announced that the country could be only months away from producing weapons-grade uranium. Amid concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the Japanese mainland, Japan dispatched a reconnaissance...
...biggest Muslim rebel group, denied responsibility for the attack. Face-Off in the Sky NORTH KOREA The U.S. began to dispatch long-range bombers to the Pacific island of Guam following the interception of an American spy plane in international air space by North Korean fighter jets. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, stemming from U.S. concerns over North Korea's nuclear-weapons ambitions, continued to rise...
...daily in the U.N. or blustered about in Washington. The issue of whether Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, and where he is hiding his empty shell casings, seems in this part of the world secondary to Kim Jong Il's admission of restarting his nuclear program and Pyongyang's assertion that it might strike first if the U.S. deploys more forces in the Western Pacific. These escalations, coming from a country that, by most accounts, already possesses precisely the types of weapons of mass destruction that inspectors are searching for in Iraq, have alarmed Asians from Tokyo...
...state philosophy of juche, usually translated as "self-reliance," relies on anti-American rhetoric for most of its brittle, thin substance. The U.S., according to North Korean history, started the Korean War, continues to pursue aggressive policies on the peninsula and aspires to the subjugation of all Koreans. Pyongyang unites its starving and impoverished people by flagrantly appealing to this hysterical world view. And these theories have been put into violent practice: North Korea launched an aggressive war in 1950, regularly kidnapped foreign nationals and is already a force in the global drug and arms trades. (Imagine if a shipment...