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...necessary. If the North's nuclear program is not stopped, declared Eagleburger, there will be no hope of controlling the spread of nuclear weapons in the world, and "it ought to scare the pants off everybody." Said McCain: "The only thing that convinces people like Kim Il Sung is the threat of force and extinction, and that has to be implicit in the enactment of sanctions...
After all these months, the West has little idea what Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, the designated successor, are up to. Are they bent on extorting the best combination of diplomatic and economic benefits for a pledge of good behavior, or are they simply determined to build an atomic arsenal? Donald Gregg, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, argues, "The North Koreans want a face-saving way out of the corner into which they have painted themselves." He thinks the U.S. ought to specify exactly what benefits the North will reap if it gives...
...best-informed analysis comes from a Western diplomat who recently visited Pyongyang and talked with senior government officials including members of the Kim family. This diplomat describes the North Korean attitude as a siege mentality, desperate to maintain itself, fearful of attack. He does not think Kim Il Sung is looking for an economic payoff or playing a self-aggrandizing game of brinkmanship. Rather he is obsessed with assuring the survival not just of the regime but also of the very country he created. The diplomat compares Kim's quest for nuclear power with French President Charles de Gaulle...
...regime, it will have to remain in place for a long time, until the Kims, their government and Stalinism in North Korea have died out. In Europe, Clinton was reviewing options with his foreign policy aides, trying to anticipate moves for next week and next month. If Kim Il Sung is staking the survival of his regime and his nation on the building of a nuclear arsenal, sanctions are not likely to change his course. And for Bill Clinton and the other world leaders who see nuclear proliferation as a deadly peril to the world, the costs of backing away...
...board are scores of Koreans eager to visit relatives -- along with a cargo that until recently often included such high-tech items as powerful computers and troves of cash, much of it exported in violation of Japanese law. Because Tokyo is reluctant to antagonize either the Kim Il Sung government or the North Koreans who live in Japan, customs officials had previously turned a blind...