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...recent weeks, it has vowed to "demonstrate" its nuclear capability, a statement that has been interpreted as a threat to conduct a test-detonation of a nuclear weapon. Plainly, the stalemate would not stop North Korea going nuclear, and there was no support among regional allies for military confrontation. Instead, China, South Korea and Russia have urged the U.S. to show greater flexibility on the question of security guarantees, to allow for the brokering of a classic diplomatic deal that would allow all sides to step back from the path of confrontation while proclaiming their core demands have been...
...there may well be some pushback against the idea of offering guarantees to North Korea from Vice President Dick Cheney and other hawkish elements in the administration when the presidential entourage returns to Washington. And the initiative will mean little if North Korea goes ahead and tests a weapon in the comings weeks or months. But for now, the U.S. response to the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is following more familiar Cold War doctrines of containment, deterrence and engagement, rather than the "preemption" doctrine that got its first real-world outing in Iraq...
...Washington. But it has clearly been helped along by the key EU powers - including Britain's prime minister Tony Blair - and also, possibly, by the efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush...
...Reward offered by the U.S. military for each weapon turned in by Iraqi citizens...
...Amount one weapon can fetch on the black market...