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...alternative energy sources (including a series of lower-grade nuclear reactors). And as U.S. officials hurried to emphasize immediately after Bush's statement, Washington has no evidence that North Korea is not complying with the terms of that agreement. Given the epic paranoia and unpredictability of the regime in Pyongyang, the last thing you want to do is accuse them of cheating - unless you're consciously setting out to take it to the next level...
...administration may have been making their presence felt. After all, Bush could quite simply have done the "we wholeheartedly support South Korea's peace efforts and are studying ways to take it forward" routine - the diplomatic equivalent of "no comment" - instead of pointedly questioning the wisdom of negotiating with Pyongyang, which was a sharp slapdown to President Kim's "sunshine" policy of reconciliation with the North...
...message to Bush was that the window of opportunity for reaching a deal to end North Korea's missile program in exchange for technical and economic aid was fast closing, but the U.S. president said there'd be no talks with Pyongyang anytime soon. The reason? "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements," explained Bush...
...deal with North Korea's missiles, of course, is the subject of one of the fundamental planks of the Bush administration's foreign policy - national missile defense. Pyongyang's presumed missile capability has been Exhibit A in making the case for a shield designed to protect the U.S. from warheads fired by "rogue" states, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spent much of the past five years talking up the North Korean threat. Rumsfeld and other administration hawks have never been comfortable with the Clinton policy of offering North Korea economic aid in exchange for curbing its roguish ways, seeing...
...seemed to be decorated with a rainbow after the display of firecrackers." KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, Pyongyang's official wire service, effusively describing Mother Nature's gift to Kim Jong Il on his 59th birthday...