Word: standoff
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...October 1994, the U.S. and North Korea concluded a tense, two-year standoff with an accord that seemed to usher in a new era of cooperation in North Asia. By signing a deal called the Agreed Framework, the U.S. promised to provide impoverished North Korea with energy assistance. In exchange, the North agreed to halt production of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Countries in the Stalinist state's menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement...
...even by the tactics of slow strangulation among the key regional players - South Korea, Japan and China - who fear that North Korea wold retaliate by starting a war. And while Tokyo is more inclined to back a harder negotiating position from Washington, Seoul and Beijing fear that a protracted standoff will see North Korea take irreversible steps towards nuclear-armed status...
...China: Iraqi Embassy Standoff...
...Early on in the standoff, claim Iraqi diplomats, al-Ani's wife made threatening phone calls to three Iraqi families who live in the compound, telling them she would kill them if they didn't leave the embassy grounds. Says one diplomat, "she called my home and said she'd shoot my son and deliver his body to my wife's lap." Al-Khudairi has applied to China's Foreign Ministry to intervene on his behalf, but thus far Beijing has merely posted extra guards outside the embassy. "This man is a thug," says al-Khudairi...
...China: Iraqi Embassy Standoff...