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...statement, signed in Beijing by diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China Russia, Japan and South Korea, represented the first breakthrough since North Korea withdrew from international agreements in 2002 and announced its intention to build nuclear weapons. Since then, Pyongyang has declared itself a nuclear power and is believed to possess as many as seven atom bombs...
...would mothball its nuclear weapons program. After a strategic review of that framework, however, the U.S. accused North Korea of carrying on a secret program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons; North Korea then accused the U.S. of failing to live up to its end of the agreement, withdrew from international protocols and began to reprocess nuclear material in earnest. It's that material, from plutonium rods previously been under international supervision, which North Korea is believed to have used to construct its still-untested nuclear arsenal...
...Israeli public opinion hasn't been affected so much by the images of burning synagogues in the evacuated settlements. The synagogues were deconsecrated before the last Israeli soldiers withdrew. Still, Israelis are reminded of tragic episodes in Jewish history when they see a synagogue burning. Certainly, the synagogues have been a problematic issue. Many rabbis argue that it's forbidden for Jews to destroy a synagogue, unless another is being built. The chief rabbi of the army was able to find a rather hair-splitting justification for dismantling the synagogues entirely, which the army went to Israel's High Court...
After examining the recent Harvard report, Kuwait withdrew that financial claim and amended its long-pending public-health claims...
...House and the CIA. So when the position of Washington bureau chief opened up, Frankel coveted the post. When he lost out to Tom Wicker, Frankel resigned. "But, Max, think of the platform," implored James Reston, the Times's Washington columnist. "Can you really give up the platform?" Frankel withdrew his resignation. This child of the Times could not bring himself to leave his family...