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...economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense program so strongly favored by the Bush administration. Although intelligence experts disagree on whether and when North Korea would have the capacity or intent to threaten U.S. shores with missiles, North Korea has offered...
...unglamorous and even unseemly as the technique may have seemed. The North Koreans have hit desperate times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and their weapons programs have been widely viewed as a means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing out a Stalinist basket-case simply because it threatens to go ballistic...
...Bush Challenge: The Bush administration is unlikely to rush into accepting the new satellite-missile deal, and may take a more skeptical look at Pyongyang?s intentions - at least while it's fighting for funds for its missile defense plans. But the moves towards rapprochement with North Korea are strongly backed by South Korea and Japan, the two most important U.S. allies in the region, as well as by China, and while the Bush White House may be tempted to slow down, it's unlikely to try and reverse the course...
...miss the policies, from the self-righteous "gays in the military" gambit, to Hillary's baggy monster of a health care plan, to Clinton's recklessly risk-averse foreign policy, which conducted cowardly "virtual wars" from the skies above Belgrade and Baghdad, while coddling a tinpot dictator in Pyongyang and a collection of tyrants in Beijing. Nor, finally, will I miss the hangers-on and toadies who filled the Clinton White House, and who increasingly came to resemble a dysfunctional mob family--the Corleones or the Sopranos, by way of Little Rock and the Democratic Leadership Council. There were...
Japan has its issues with North Korea, not least of which is the fate of 10 Japanese who went missing more than 20 years ago. Tokyo insists they were abducted by Pyongyang's spies. Mori recently let slip that on a 1997 trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might...