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There is too much mistrust for anyone to answer that question unequivocally. But the cautious optimists on the U.S. side believe the step-by-step approach outlined in the Feb. 13 agreement may bear fruit beyond Yongbyon. Kim got desperately needed fuel oil in return for shutting the plutonium reactor, and there are more economic and diplomatic goodies in store if he completes the next steps of the deal he signed: outlining in detail what nuclear material his regime has--including a disputed uranium-enrichment program--and disposing...
...respect, you could argue that doing your taxes has never been easier. Let's take me as an example. A few weeks ago, I ripped open my copy of TurboTax Deluxe Deduction Maximizer, popped the CD into my laptop, and happily followed the step-by-step on-screen prompts - I didn't have any losses from straddles to report, but it was nice to be asked and given a hyperlinked explanation (turns out, they're offsetting positions on property like stocks). Within a few hours, I was ready to e-file. The only annoying part - aside from...
...Hill said last month: "It is unlikely that the North Koreans will roll out of bed in the morning and say: 'We are going to make a strategic decision to get out of [the nuclear-weapons business.]' More likely, they are going to make decisions to move on a step-by-step basis...
...prescribes a step-by-step process to verifiably shut down Yongbyon, before the parties reconvene in Beijing to discuss further steps that would include dismantling the reactor. Hill acknowledges that progress towards a grand bargain depends entirely on small steps over the next few months. "It is unlikely that the North Koreans will roll out of bed in the morning and say we are going to make a strategic decision to get out of [the nuclear weapons business]," Hill said last month. "More likely, they are going to make decisions to move on a step...
Rice and Livni discussed their new approach in Washington in early December, and since then they have had frequent phone conversations. Their strategy is to put aside the step-by-step road map, which requires that the Palestinians dismantle their terrorist infrastructure before any new phase of negotiations begins, and instead leap right to final-status talks with moderate Palestinians about what a two-state solution would look like. If a suitable framework for a Palestinian state is reached, Abbas would then go to his people with a referendum: Do you want it or not? He is convinced...