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...Korean peninsula. The North has stopped plutonium production and completed several promised steps to disable the Yongbyon nuclear facility. (Though North Korea now says it is restarting that facility, U.S. experts who have visited the site say it will take considerable time and expense to do so.) South Korea has become an important trade and investment partner of the North. Some nongovernmental organizations, such as Mercy Corps, have had regular access to North Korea because they have delivered on meaningful development projects. If talks resume, they will surely be invited back. And China has moved from being a passive...
...bargain would have to take the form of a new package deal that would reaffirm to Kim Jong Il that the U.S. is not hostile to the regime, accepts its legitimacy and is willing to provide long-term development assistance. Only the U.S. can persuade the leadership in South Korea not to seek to absorb the North or undermine it - so long as North Korea terminates its plutonium-bomb program under verifiable conditions. In sum, it can be argued, North Korea's security is actually the best way to promote South Korea's and the region's security...
...truth of what is happening in Afghanistan was laid out during recent gatherings held by the advocacy group Iraq Veterans Against the War, during which vets testified to the brutality of the occupation. Hamid Karzai's government is just like the puppet regimes the U.S. set up in South Vietnam. And as in Vietnam, civilians are being massacred by U.S. troops. The media will deny it until, like My Lai, it becomes too big to be denied. While I heartily disagree with its policies, even the Taliban would be better for Afghanistan than the U.S.'s self-serving occupation. Hannah...
Democracy in South Africa Re "Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow" [April 20]. While the concern around a Zuma presidency is warranted, opposition parties to the ANC will fight to prevent the country sliding into chaos. South Africa is the greatest country in Africa, and is worth fighting for. S.K. Sonderup, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Alex Perry's story falsely characterizes the ANC as being in political and moral decline. Granted, South Africa is in the process of democratizing, and mistakes have been made, but the beauty of democracy is that it is inherently self-correcting. The formation of splinter groups such as the Congress of the People is a clear sign that, 15 years after liberation, South Africa's democracy still works and that the ANC will never monopolize power at the cost of democracy. Tshilidzi Marwala, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...