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President Lee's government was not being cowed, however. His Foreign Minister, Yu Myung Hwan, in a meeting with Condoleezza Rice this week, said that Seoul was "running out of time and patience" with Pyongyang over the North Korean nuclear issue. On Wednesday, President Lee himself warned that he would speak out against human rights abuses in North Korea; an issue avoided by the past two liberal administrations, and would not expand ties with the country until it abandons its nuclear weapons program...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE...
...streets of Lhasa and other cities this month, prompting a clampdown by Chinese authorities. That has provoked talk of a partial boycott of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing. But by seeking dialogue with the Dalai Lama, as called for by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, China's rulers can show the world their commitment to promoting freedom and safeguarding human rights...
Mindlessly, I joined the throng. Perhaps it was the prospect of eating a dinner that did not involve brown rice and broccoli, or perhaps it was a tendency towards more creative means of procrastination, but I decided I would stay in that line and get my free burrito, so help...
...That was not just the perception of outsiders, said Allison, a former assistant secretary of defense with long-time connections to both Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell...