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...Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK) has amply demonstrated its enthusiasm for selling illicit arms on the international market. In 2002, for instance, the Spanish navy intercepted a North Korean vessel shipping scud missiles to Yemen. Back in 1998 the DPRK was found to have sold missile technology to Pakistan’s Khan Research Lab. (As in Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed this year to selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.) The danger that the regime will now sell nuclear weapons to terrorists cannot be brushed aside...
...convince Kim Jong Il that we really don’t harbor any desire to invade North Korea and overthrow his regime, as he seems to believe. Kim’s suspicion that the United States intends to launch “a war of aggression against the DPRK,” as last week’s radio address put it, seems to be the driving motivation behind North Korea’s nuclear build-up. But then, this suspicion, and Kim’s reticence to disarm and readmit weapons inspectors, is not so surprising after what happened...
Might not the DPRK retaliate militarily against such a draconian embargo? Not necessarily—the regime would not welcome a war between the United States and North Korea any more than we would. Of course, the risk exists. But what are the alternatives? Strike militarily and guarantee war? Stand by while nukes are sold to the highest bidder...
...common goals. And then, on Saturday, the North declared itself uninterested in future meetings. "The talks have made us believe that we have no other choice but to strengthen our nuclear deterrent force," a foreign ministry spokesman railed to North Korea's official news agency. "How can the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] trust the U.S. and drop its gun? Even a child would not be taken in by such a trick...
...After lunch, the Secretary prepared for her first meeting with Kim. His security guards were flummoxed by the digital camera of the wire-service photographer and seemed uncomfortable at the prospect of foreign civilians - American journalists at that - in the presence of the man known in the DPRK, like his father before him, as the "Great Leader." We had been told beforehand to avoid any sudden movements when in the Great Leader's presence. Not to ask any questions unless the Great Leader addressed us. And under no circumstances to stray from our minders...