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...that the U.S. has agreed to resume talks with North Korea, the question is what they'll talk about. During his visit to South Korea for consultations over missile defense, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage made clear Thursday that Washington would hold talks with Pyongyang "in the near future" once the Bush administration had completed its review of Korea policy. He also made public a letter from President Bush to South Korea?s President Kim Dae Jung promising to "strongly support the South?s engagement policy on the North." The statements are clearly intended to undo some...
...South Korean ally who had invested all of his political capital on promoting North-South reconciliation. President Kim's "Sunshine Policy" also had the backing of Washington's other key regional ally, Japan, and the Bush administration would not find much regional support for taking a harder line against Pyongyang. Armitage's remarks reveal an effort to smooth over any feathers ruffled by the President's initial comments...
...while the Bush administration may be softening its tone, it hasn't yet signaled whether it plans to pursue the policies of the Clinton administration, which were premised on offering economic and technological aid to North Korea as an incentive for Pyongyang to end its nuclear and missile programs. Conservative Republicans had long pilloried that policy as giving in to extortion, and administration officials had signaled in March that the Bush team wants to reopen talks on the 1994 agreement under which the U.S. and Japan undertook to provide energy aid and help North Korea build civilian nuclear reactors...
...North recently undertook to extend its freeze on missile testing - a smart move at a time when Washington is using Pyongyang as Exhibit A in its efforts to convince U.S. allies of the need for missile defense - but says it won't schedule any more talks with South Korea until the U.S. has completed its policy review...
...concern," has been downgraded again to "rogue state" by Bush. Three weeks ago, he embarrassed the President of South Korea, who has been trying to foster a warming trend, by saying the U.S. was in no rush to do more business with North Korea because he wasn't sure Pyongyang could be trusted. The Administration has taken a decidedly hands-off stance toward peacemaking, including in the Middle East. And though right-wingers are howling that he is easing up on Iraq sanctions, Bush was quick to drop bombs near Baghdad...