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There is one event that could bring the North Korea policies of Seoul and Washington into closer alignment: a nuclear test by the North. Roh was livid after Pyongyang declared it had nuclear weapons in February, says a South Korean official. Seoul hasn't officially turned down a North Korean...
Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test? Yes," says the official. "Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's record of bluffing, "it's very possible they are pretending it's a test" so as to scare the rest of the...
In the late 1990s, U.S. spy satellites crisscrossing North Korea picked up alarming evidence that suggested the rogue regime might be excavating a secret underground nuclear test facility. North Korea agreed to allow U.S. officials to visit the site--after Washington ponied up some extra food aid--but when the...
Iakovos maintained traditional Orthodox beliefs such as opposing female ordination, but came into conflict with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Greek Orthodox Church after he supported a move by 29 bishops towards the administrative unification of Eastern Orthodox churches in America. It is widely believed that this clash forced...
For China, visits from Lien and Soong are no-losers: it gives away nothing but a few rounds of toasts and, in return, gets top Taiwan politicians to come and affirm the goal of eventual unification. Beijing also managed to appear graceful toward its so-called renegade province just six...