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...hardly a panacea for regional hostilities, and that the medium’s wide circulation reinforces South Korean nationalism. Hallyu TV dramas are so popular in North Korea that border guards are being rotated to prevent them from dealing in contraband recordings, Jung-Sook Park said. She added the Pyongyang elite is only about two days behind South Korean audiences on its favorite soaps. Jin-Young Park struck a very different note as he began his presentation. “What’s up, guys? Is it OK to say ‘what’s up?...
...least, it provides the prospect of real improvement on the status quo, which is a North Korea bent on producing more weapons. If the Yongbyon reactor is shut down, the North's ability to make more nukes--or worse, peddle nuclear material to third parties--will be crippled. Although Pyongyang is a long way from giving up its nuclear weapons entirely, the diplomatic path toward that goal is more visible than it has been in years. This is likely the best deal the U.S. could get right now, and the fact that Bush's team took it means "they have...
...Bush's critics see it, that's where the latest deal falls short. Former Clinton Administration officials say the agreement is a close facsimile of the Agreed Framework signed by Washington and Pyongyang in 1994. That deal called for the North to halt nuclear-weapons development in return for two light-water nuclear power plants, from which it is difficult to generate the fissile material for bombs. Clinton's presidency ended before the power plants could be completed, and the projects today are derelict--evidence, in Pyongyang's eyes, of Washington's bad faith. But those who defend the Agreed...
...Bolton's criticisms. The Administration argues that the latest deal is much stronger than the one negotiated in '94 because it effectively isolates Kim. The Clinton deal was bilateral, whereas this time all North Korea's neighbors, including its closest ally, China, are co-signers, which should force Pyongyang to keep its promises and continue to bargain in good faith. The Chinese were infuriated by Kim's October nuclear blast--President Hu Jintao had publicly warned against such a test--and have ratcheted up the pressure accordingly. This "deal has muscle," argues Michael Green, a former Bush adviser on East...
...face with her North Korean counterpart for the first time during Bush's presidency. Those meetings could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. The Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korean threat--such as regime change in Pyongyang--has faded. Instead, the U.S. seems willing to pursue a more modest strategy: bargaining away North Korea's nuclear program, one deal at a time...