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...that's true, it's possible that Kim is once again trying to direct North Korea out of the corner it's crawled into. Pyongyang, even amid recent tirades against the U.S. aimed at Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has left the door open to the possibility of re-engaging Washington in talks - though not in the so-called six-party format, which includes all of North Korea's direct neighbors, that Obama favors. "We must pay keen attention to what signal North Korea sent to Bill Clinton," says Yun Duk min, a professor at a think...
...most obviously, photos from the meeting show a grinning Kim, the ailing dictator, looking much better physically - surprisingly so, in fact - than he has since suffering a stroke last August. The South Korean press had reported earlier this summer that Kim might be suffering form pancreatic cancer, and recent photos showed him looking haggard and not well. In recent weeks, intelligence agencies had been scrambling to nail down reports that a succession struggle was under way in Pyongyang and that Kim might not be long for the world. Foreign Ministries and intelligence agencies in East Asia - Japanese, South Korean...
...recent meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand, Hillary Clinton said talks were the "only place" North Korea had left to go. She was right. The U.S. and its partners in the six-party talks ratcheted up the North's isolation after its second nuclear test back in May. Even China, the North's principal patron, was dismayed by Pyongyang's behavior. Now, however, the Clinton visit arguably puts the onus of international diplomacy back on the Obama Administration, which came into office very much wanting to engage the North...
Just hours after the raids, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared, "There is an enduring threat of terrorism at home here in Australia as well as overseas." He noted that three Australians lost their lives in the recent bombings in Jakarta but was quick to note that the alleged al-Shabaab plot appears to have nothing to do with the Indonesian incident. Despite Australia's remote location, a number of major investigations have been mounted into alleged terrorist cells or terrorist supporters, with mixed success. In 2005, Australian security agencies thwarted a group of men who had discussed plotting...
...statement seemed to be referring to a recent parliamentary committee report that blamed death row inmates for bouts of violence earlier this year, including fatal attacks on prison wardens at two of the country's biggest prisons. "We haven't had the hangman for 22 years and these criminals have been very dangerous to society because they are idle," Casper Awuondo, a sociology professor at the University of Nairobi, tells TIME. "They have been using their mobile phones to threaten people, extort money, do all sorts of things, because they are idle." (See pictures of prison life in Baghdad...