Word: pyongyang
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...grisly threat, replayed over and over on South Korean television, was a sharp reminder of the acrimony growing between North Korea and most of the world after Pyongyang once again refused to submit to international nuclear inspection. The North cranked up its noisy propaganda machine to proclaim the Korean peninsula on "the brink of war" and pointedly reminded the U.S. not to forget that 54,246 American soldiers died in the Korean...
...resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement its 34,830 troops in South Korea and beef up their equipment. All the military talk sparked fears that the yearlong diplomatic campaign to haul Pyongyang back inside the safeguards of the nonproliferation treaty had collapsed. Given the touchy unpredictability of the Kim Il Sung regime, Seoul and Washington were worried that even small military signals could escalate toward a catastrophic...
...want to be an alarmist on North Korea," Secretary of Defense William Perry told TIME last week, "but I take the threat of military action very seriously." Two-thirds of Pyongyang's army is stationed within 100 miles of the border and could march to the demilitarized zone in an hour and to Seoul in two. The North, he says, is "persisting in the development of a nuclear-weapons program." And, adds Perry, "it's a very erratic regime. I don't know of anybody anywhere who can predict with confidence what philosophical views the North Korean leadership has about...
Last week a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that it had been prevented from examining equipment that would help determine whether Pyongyang has told the truth about its nuclear program. The North's refusal could set in motion a process of condemnation and sanctions from the U.N. Security Council and retaliation by Pyongyang that Washington has been negotiating for a year to avoid. On Saturday the North's nuclear negotiators stormed out of a meeting with the South. The U.N. may take the matter up this week; the U.S. has reportedly decided to resume plans to conduct...
...Beijing the two TIME editors, bureau chief Jaime A. FlorCruz and reporter Mia Turner discussed the problem with Vice Premier Li Lanqing, who said China too prefers a nuclear-free Korean peninsula but has "limited" influence over Pyongyang. Li was more concerned about Clinton's human-rights campaign...