Word: teste
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...While Hill said that North Korea had made no pledge to refrain from further nuclear tests, Japan's conservative Foreign Minister Taro Aso reportedly said that Tokyo opposes resuming the talks unless Pyongyang agrees to renounce its weapons program. North Korea, still stinging from the sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council earlier this month, in the wake of its Oct, 9 test of a small nuclear device, is unlikely before talks even begin to surrender a bomb it spent decades and millions building...
...When North Korea does return to the bargaining table, it's possible that the relatively solid coalition cobbled together by the U.S. in the aftermath of this month's test could easily break down, as China and South Korea reduce the pressure they put on Pyongyang even as the U.S. and Japan maintain a hard line...
...round of six-party talks. It won't escape the notice of officials in Tokyo that Japanese diplomats were apparently not involved in the talks that brought Pyongyang back to the table. Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose term started just two weeks before Kim's nuclear test, has built support with the Japanese public by standing firm against North Korea. If Abe is seen to go soft, he could lose his conservative political base, already shaken by his recent diplomatic overtures to Beijing and Seoul. While Abe has repeatedly declared that Japan has no intention of developing...
...negotiations. Despite U.N. sanctions, South Korea, which favors engagement with the North, has been slow to reduce aid and trade with Pyongyang, while the South Korean public is just as likely to blame President Bush for the nuclear standoff as it is Kim Jong Il. Even after the test, China and South Korea still fear a collapsing North Korea more than they do a nuclear one, while Japan and the U.S. would like nothing more than to see Kim gone. Russia, for its part, sometimes appears content to just observe the diplomatic gridlock...
...real test will be how all six parties react once the talks resume - assuming, of course, the talks really do resume this year. (It's best to mark your calendar in pencil when you're dealing with North Korea.) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters earlier this month that North Korea simply returning to the talks wouldn't be enough for the U.S. to relax sanctions - a position Hill reiterated in Beijing...