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...having a secret nuclear-weapons program, reopened a mothballed reactor, threw out inspectors and disconnected the monitoring cameras, officials from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna and decided not to report all this misbehavior to the U.N. Security Council for action. But last week Pyongyang raised the stakes even higher, and now the IAEA may have no choice. When President Kim Jong Il declared that North Korea would become the first nation ever to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and might test some new missiles as well, the pretense that this confrontation doesn...
...gamesmanship from Pyongyang made it even harder for the Bush Administration to resolve the fight between those who say that talking to Kim amounts to rewarding blackmail and those who say that isolating Kim will just make it harder to stop him. Everyone from Dick Cheney to Colin Powell was tiptoeing around their verbs--the U.S. is willing to talk but not negotiate--leading critics like Senator John McCain to call the policy positively Clintonian in its evasiveness. But the signals were mixed from North Korea as well. There was hard-line talk in public about a "holy war" with...
...hear tell, the man at the center of the unfolding North Korean nuclear crisis, Pyongyang's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, is a ruthless mastermind. Earlier this month, another American newsweekly put him on the cover under the label "Dr. Evil." The message: he may look bizarre, but Kim Jong Il is deadly formidable...
...record is, quite literally, disastrous. At home he is the architect of a catastrophic famine that has killed hundreds of thousands?maybe millions?of his subjects since 1995. On the international chessboard, Kim's performance has been scarcely more awe inspiring. Indeed, in the current nuclear drama, many of Pyongyang's moves are careless or clueless miscalculations...
...Washington insists it will only speak to Pyongyang about dismantling its nuke program; after that, Bush said, he will think about going ahead with an energy and food initiative. Pyongyang is holding out for more. Despite a stream of assurances from Washington that it has no plans for a military strike on North Korea, Pyongyang insists on a long-term nonagression pact. Diplomats say it is also pushing for diplomatic relations with the U.S. After his meetings in Seoul, Kelly predicted a "very slow process" ahead. "We are going to have to talk and work together and communicate with other...