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North Korea and the U.S. resumed talks in Geneva aimed at ending the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program. The talks are expected to last a week and focus on a specific issue: getting North Korea to allow inspections of two sites suspected by the U.S. to be nuclear waste dumps...
Continuing in his new role as freelance secretary of state, Carter on Monday met with North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. to propose a return visit to Pyongyang after July's talks on the country's nuclear program. Today he huddled with South Korea's ambassador...
...been Castro's greatest ally, allowing him to turn each bungled assault into a propaganda victory and to present himself, with some justification, as a resolute David standing up to a bullying Goliath. Now Washington has the rare chance to do with Havana what it could scarcely do with Pyongyang, which is to go the master mischiefmaker one step better -- and help 11 million hungry people -- by offering them (surprise!) a helping hand...
...officials softened their ground rules for a nuclear settlement with North Korea when formal talks resume in Geneva two weeks from today. In Washington, chief U.S. negotiator Robert Gallucci dropped a demand that Pyongyang disclose every shred of information about its past nuclear activities so investigators could figure out whether it has stashed away a warhead, or a half-dozen of them. Instead, he said, the U.S. can attack that question after a basic agreement that would have North Korea drop its nuclear weapons program altogether, in exchange for a modern nuclear reactor and relations with...
...points to trouble in the North. "It has heightened our suspicions," says a senior official in Seoul, "that something is going wrong for Kim Jong Il." Seoul may be genuinely worried about Kim Jong Il's stability or may be trying to rock the boat in Pyongyang...