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...diplomatic consensus was not good going into the orchestra's adventure in the Hermit Kingdom. Except for closing a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon - a significant step, to be sure - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the supposedly ground-breaking deal he signed last year. But the warmth and musical harmony of Tuesday night in Pyongyang seemed to belie that impasse. And what dramatic possibilities there might have been. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the same peninsula, albeit in South Korea, attending the inauguration of that country's new President. If there...
Indeed, skeptics openly wonder just who is playing whom this week. Except for closing the reactor at Yongbyon - a significant step, to be sure - Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the deal he signed last year. It required him, by the end of 2007, to disclose all the details about his entire nuclear program - including what the U.S. believes was a surreptitious effort to develop the bomb by enriching uranium, a program Washington believes the North Koreans ran in addition to the plutonium reactor in Yongbyon. President's Bush's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton...
...were revived. In 1971 the visit to Beijing by a group of U.S. table tennis players foreshadowed the end of China's Cold War-era seclusion and a new era in relations between Washington and Beijing. Now, the Philharmonic's concert comes as Pyongyang shuts down its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon - which it promised to do in a diplomatic agreement with the U.S. and five other countries almost exactly one year ago. "For us, for the members of the orchestra, this is a momentous journey," Orchestra spokesman Eric Latzky said...
...ambulance crew arrived within several minutes to this pedestrian mall in the Negev, just 10 kms away from Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor. As a doctor rushed among the injured, he paused to open the jacket of one severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled...
...flying through unfriendly skies didn't seem to bother the Israelis when they bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. Why now wouldn't Israel defy the world? "An Israeli attack is not expected," he said, conceding the point. "But on the other hand it's not unforeseeable...