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John R. Bolton: Deal with North Korea like police truce with Mob
For most Europeans, President Bush’s second-term North Korea policy is a welcome relief from his earlier unilateralist cowboy-ism. Recent photos of the Yongbyon reactor’s cooling tower collapsing are soothing evidence that Washington’s foreign-policy establishment has reasserted itself. Can direct U.S. negotiations with Iran be far behind?
Look at the nuclear programs in North Korea, Iran
North Korea and Iran have nuclear programs. Each country entertained offers from the United States and others to get rid of those programs or scale them back. The similarities end there. What is known about the programs in each country:
ANALYSIS: More `near-nuclear' states may loom
It may have rattled windows and raised dust, but the blast that toppled a towering symbol of North Korea's atom-bomb project was a mere blip on a world map where more and more states may "go nuclear" - or nearly so - in the years to come.  North Korea saddened by loss of reactor towerThere hasn't yet been any official North Korean reaction to the destruction of the most visible symbol of its nuclear program, but a U.S. diplomat who witnessed it said Saturday that the big blast saddened government officials there.
Chronology of North Korean nuclear activities
A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:  Analysis: Nuclear papers leave many questions openThe Bush administration breathed easier when the prickly and unpredictable North Korean government stuck to its script and handed over long-delayed nuclear paperwork as planned.  Bush moves to take N.Korea off terrorism blacklistAfter months of stalling, North Korea offered a glimpse of its secretive nuclear program Thursday and was promptly rewarded by President Bush with an easing of trade sanctions and a move to take the communist state off the U.S. terrorism blacklist. Bush falls short of grand goals on North KoreaSeven years of tough talk by President Bush failed to stop North Korea from enlarging its stockpile of nuclear bombs on his watch and Bush's administration is winding down with deep doubts about whether Pyongyang really intends to abandon its weapons program.
Reaction to the US lifting North Korea sanctions
Some reaction to the United States lifting trade sanctions against North Korea and moving to remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist:
Long road ahead to verify North Korean declaration
North Korea on Thursday submitted a long-delayed accounting of its nuclear activities, triggering an announcement from the Bush administration that it will ease some sanctions on the Stalinist nation. |
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