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...were revived. In 1971 the visit to Beijing by a group of U.S. table tennis players foreshadowed the end of China's Cold War-era seclusion and a new era in relations between Washington and Beijing. Now, the Philharmonic's concert comes as Pyongyang shuts down its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon - which it promised to do in a diplomatic agreement with the U.S. and five other countries almost exactly one year ago. "For us, for the members of the orchestra, this is a momentous journey," Orchestra spokesman Eric Latzky said...
...ambulance crew arrived within several minutes to this pedestrian mall in the Negev, just 10 kms away from Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor. As a doctor rushed among the injured, he paused to open the jacket of one severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled...
...flying through unfriendly skies didn't seem to bother the Israelis when they bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. Why now wouldn't Israel defy the world? "An Israeli attack is not expected," he said, conceding the point. "But on the other hand it's not unforeseeable...
...promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program, as it had promised to do, the North is already dismantling its plutonium reactor at Yongbyon - which produced the fissile material for its small nuclear arsenal - under the eyes of U.S. inspectors. Christopher Hill, Washington's point man on North Korea, made it clear the U.S. would be flexible on the missed deadline for full disclosure. "No one likes being late, but I think...
...Regime change, however, is looking unlikely. Relations between the U.S. and North Korea have thawed since Washington agreed to unfreeze some $25 million in North Korean funds after Pyongyang agreed to dismantle the Yongbyon reactor; the U.S. is also considering removing the North from its blacklist of state sponsors of terror, an offer that previous Japanese leaders have insisted should be left off the table until the abductees issue is resolved...