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...officials from each of the participating countries?China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S.?expressed their satisfaction with a process the chief achievement of which was to have avoided falling apart entirely. "There was no breakdown but no breakthrough," says Lee Chung Min, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. "It was another round of shadow boxing...
...Meanwhile, the U.S. demands "complete, verifiable and irreversible" dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program before it will discuss any thaw in bilateral relations. But time is on North Korea's side: while talks drag on, it can quietly continue developing nuclear weapons. Says Peter Hayes, a North Korea expert at the Nautilus Institute, a California think tank: "The longer we wait, the higher the price we have to pay to buy them out." Sometimes, talk can be anything but cheap...
...casa Soprano with an angry teenage son--and a wild black bear invading the backyard, a menacing inversion of the family of ducks that settled in the pool in Season 1, precipitating Tony's first panic attack and trip to therapy. (Hammering home the metaphor, an animal-control expert tells Carmela that the corn Tony bought to feed the ducks has gone bad, attracting the intruder...
Good Bye, Lenin!, a huge hit in Germany and across Europe, may sound like sitcom stuff, a wacky mistaken-identity plot inflated to national dimensions. In fact, as handled with expert tenderness by director and co-writer Wolfgang Becker, the trope works splendidly as both political metaphor and love story. If some Iraqis can look back with a twisted longing on the more orderly days of Saddam's rule, why can't East Germans get a little misty over the Honecker regime? As they do. It's called Ostalgie, or Eastalgia. The film taps the universal suspicion that whatever...
...Ernest Piffl, managing director of the German firm Team GmbH near Stuttgart, received a three and half year prison sentence for illegally exporting thousands of centrifuge components to a Pakistani nuclear laboratory. An expert at the trial testified that Piffl had in his possession a classified drawing of a URENCO component...