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Article: Soften Rhetoric, Carter Advises United States, North Korea.
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- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- September 6, 2003
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Byline: Dan Chapman
Sep. 6--Former President Jimmy Carter, who helped calm tensions between the United States and North Korea in 1994, on Friday labeled the latest nuclear impasse between the countries as the world's "greatest threat."
The Nobel Peace Prize winner from Georgia blamed both governments for ratcheting up the bellicose rhetoric after last week's unsuccessful meeting in Beijing where North Korea threatened to test a nuclear bomb.
"This paranoid nation and the United States now are facing what I believe to be the greatest threat in the world to regional and global peace," he said during a press conference in Tokyo.
Carter ...