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Article: Analysis: North Korea an easier sell than Iran on giving up nuclear programs
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- June 29, 2008
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Iran and North Korea may be two points on President George W. Bush's old "axis of evil," but the authoritarian governments are polar opposites when it comes to defusing their nuclear programs.
North Korea revealed secrets about its arsenal of bomb fuel and destroyed part of its atomic factory on television this past week in exchange for economic and political concessions from the United States. It was an encouraging sign the secretive communist country may give up its bombs altogether and an incremental victory for the kind of old-fashioned, talk-to-your-enemies diplomacy distrusted by Bush administration hard-liners.
But it's not a sign Iran also can be bought ...