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...canceled talks scheduled for this week with North Korea after Pyongyang refused to allow international inspectors full access to its Yongbyon nuclear facility. Washington also reportedly decided Saturday to reschedule joint military exercises with South Korea, which had been suspended. By week's end talks between archenemies North and South Korea collapsed...
China welcomes the current confusion as an aid to retaining its preferred- trading status with the U.S. "Beijing figures its chances improve if it is perceived as the single source capable of constructively pressuring Pyongyang," explains an Administration sinologist, even though the evidence suggests China did little if anything to encourage Kim's latest maneuver...
...broken down and that the IAEA is no longer sure what North Korea is doing with its plutonium stockpile. The iaea is likely to force the issue and refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council, which will then have to decide whether to impose sanctions on North Korea. Pyongyang has threatened to treat sanctions...
...ongoing arms crisis with North Korea, which refuses to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities, has prompted the Clinton Administration to signal its intention to send Patriot missile batteries to South Korea. The commander of U.S. forces there requested the missiles in light of Pyongyang's threat to suspend the Korean peninsula armistice if the U.S. pushes for economic sanctions...
...Pyongyang has nuclear weapons, it's a different ball game...