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...regime would ultimately be destroyed in a conflict with the U.S., but the impoverished pariah state is sinking into oblivion anyway and has little else to lose. "North Korea is ready for a suicide attempt," warns Yoo Ho Yeol, an associate professor at Korea University in Seoul. The U.S. will determine whether it is an assisted suicide. Here are Washington's options, and the special difficulties each presents...
...violating that 1994 deal. If the secret agenda of the Bush Administration is regime change, as Kim fears, then negotiations will be a charade - for both sides. Even if there is room for compromise, the atmosphere may be too poisonous to nourish a deal. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Stephen Bosworth: "They trust us even less than we trust them...
...plentiful, but the SARS epidemic makes mundane trips so irritating that even hardened road warriors are staying home. B.S. (Before SARS), Rahul Shukla, a director of Citigroup Global Market, had the usual peripatetic travel schedule: on the road up to five days a week, dividing his time between Taipei, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong. Since SARS? "Zero, almost zero," he says. "We can't enter Taiwan, Singaporeans are concerned, and even in Seoul, clients prefer conference calls...
Washington was in a quandary over what to do. Preoccupied with Iraq, the Bush Administration had no interest in a simultaneous military crisis with North Korea, nor does the military option seem as viable on the Korean Peninsula given the vulnerability of Seoul to North Korean attack. But, as President Bush has commented emphatically, succumbing to blackmail by negotiating a deal that appears to reward Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear behavior is equally unattractive; indeed, the President has deemed this unacceptable. Washington has placed some hope in the possibility that multilateral pressure might bring Pyongyang to its senses...
...build international support for hardball measures. Bush wants the United Nations Security Council to take up the matter of the North's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a step that could lead to international economic sanctions. The U.S. will have an easier time in the U.N. if Seoul and Washington present a united front. About to embark on his first visit to the White House, Roh must have a sense of what he's up against. If not, he need only ask French President Jacques Chirac what it's like to try to convince Bush that the best...