[Barack Obama] is likely to benefit from initial goodwill across much of the planet, where there's profound relief that the Bush years are ending. President George W. Bush himself has taken steps, such as outreach to Iran and Syria, in his waning months that could provide Obama with diplomatic opportunities. Iraq, where Obama has promised to withdraw U.S. troops by summer 2010, is less violent, but far from stable or self-reliant. Al-Qaida and the Taliban have grown stronger and now control parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas. Neither sanctions nor sweeteners have halted Iran's nuclear development. North Korea's leader is ailing, raising questions about the stability of the nuclear-armed dictatorship. The global economic crisis, more than any other factor, could limit Obama...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader [Kim Jong Il]'s health has worsened and he can no longer walk normally, a South Korean legislator said yesterday. Liver and heart problems and worsening diabetes are to blame for the reclusive communist leader's difficulty in walking, opposition legislator Chung Hyung-keun said at a party meeting, according to his office. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the country's health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released yesterday. The scientists called Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang an embarrassment to South Africa. They called "for the immediate removal of Tshabalala-Msimang as health minister a...
Pyongyang's fury has been triggered not as much by the overwhelming international condemnation of its nuclear test, but by South Korea's decision to join something called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) created by the George W. Bush administration in 2001. More than 90 signatories of this treaty pledge to interdict material that could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. Participants occasionally hold naval exercises to board and seize suspected vessels in international waters. North Korea perceives South Korea becoming part of the PSI as an attack on its sovereignty and the abrogation of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. North Korea's isolationist mentality and a geopolitically complex neighbourhood provides for another potentially deadly combinat...
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PRIME Minister Stephen Harper condemned as "irresponsible and dangerous" North Korea's announcement yesterday that it had successfully set off a nuclear bomb. The comment was called "sharp language" and, in the realm of diplomacy, it no doubt was just that. But it wasn't really different language than every other world leader used to deplore North Korea's decision to crash the nuclear club and become the world's ninth nuclear-armed nation. In fact, it was not much different than language used to express concern about North Korea's nuclear ambitions for more than a decade, and it likely will have as much effect as all the expressions of worrisome hand-wringing that have come before -- none whatsoever.
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Now that the highest leader of North Korea confirmed a clear commitment to the North's nuclear dismantlement, I don't see any problem in carrying it out," South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said after what was only the second summit ever between the two longtime foes. The Koreas said they also "agreed to closely co-operate to end military hostility and ensure peace and easing of tension on the Korean peninsula." They "shared the view that they should end the current armistice regime and establish a permanent peace regime. Roh said he briefed [Kim Jong Il] on [George W. Bush]'s willingness and Kim "expressed specific interest" in a formula that the South and the United States discussed about ending the war. Kim "asked the South to make efforts to realize it," Roh said, without reveali...
The U.S. elections that gave the Democratic party control of both houses of Congress could help promote a resolution of the international standoff with North Korea over its nuclear program, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday, according to the Interfax news agency.
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Aid from the U.S. was also curtailed in the dying months of the [George W. Bush] administration as Washington became increasingly wary of North Korea's nuclear policy and increasingly wondered who was actually in charge in Pyongyang. The health of Beloved Leader Kim is uncertain. No one really knows who is in charge in North Korea these days, although whoever it may be is certainly trying to get attention. North Korean officials have threatened war against the South in the last few days and, to welcome Mr. [Barack Obama] to the White House, they announced that their entire stockpile of plutonium has been converted into nuclear warheads. On Tuesday, there were reports that Pyongyang was preparing to test a long-range nuclear missile capable of hitting the U.S. West Coast.
Be that as it may, and it may not have been that, these hockey games were a remarkable thing. They might not have been as extraordinary as the Beijing Ping-Pong games, but they offered hope that the Hermit Nation, as North Korea is often called, may finally be opening up to the world. Both the Great Leader, Kim Il-sung --long dead now -- and his son, the Dear Leader, President Kim Jong-il, beamed down on the ice surface from prominent portraits. But the elder Kim has been dead for years and the Dear Leader is either dead or dying -- no one knows for sure. But what is sure is that North Korea is changing, and it can hardly change except for the better. It would be remarkable if a game of hockey helped that happen: as one Canadian player said, they can play hockey better than Canadian ex-...
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