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...over 20 times more powerful than the squib the North exploded in its first test three years ago - along with several missile launches, Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in [China...
...test of another nuke on May 25 - this one with more than 20 times the explosive capacity of its predecessor three years ago - Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in the [People's Republic of China's] eye." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...
...costs to Beijing of kicking the North Korea can down the road by negotiating endlessly within the six-party talks were, with Washington's support, minimal. But now Beijing has plainly lost face; as Romberg says, it has probably been humiliated by Pyongyang. That's why diplomats in the region say there may be hope that the U.N. Security Council might seriously up the ante. Beijing's initial, tepid reaction to Monday's blast - waiting several hours before issuing a statement "condemning" the test - has been toughened, and discussions at the Security Council about possible sanctions are now under...
...series, which recently has concentrated on 50s and 60s musicals that are a familiar part of the Broadway repertory, must think about expanding its horizons. Of course I mean backward. Last year's revival of Sigmund Romberg's "New Moon" showed that operetta can comfortably nest in the Encores! bosom. How about a true faux operetta: "Hollywood Pinafore," George S. Kaufman's tweaking of "H.M.S. Pinafore" into a satire on the movie business? (It ran briefly on Broadway in 1946 and was not heard again until it surfaced six years ago in Discover the Lost Musicals.) Those Kern musicals that...
During the question-and-answer session, Romberg and Perkins rejected the possibility of a U.S.-mediated cross-strait discussion, while Kirby made a wry reference to America’s “success” in solving problems Middle East...