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Article: Eyeballing Kim Jong Il - Eyeballing Kim Jong Il; America and North Korea.(America's sterner line with North Korea)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2002
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George Bush needs help from South Korea, Japan and China to manage North Korea
PEERING across the heavily armed divide between North Korea and South Korea, in the gun sights of one of the world's most dangerous regimes, is a sobering experience even for the president of the world's strongest power. As a last outpost of the cold war and an integral component of George Bush's "axis of evil", North Korea has it all: access to all manner of nasty weapons, possibly including one or two nuclear ones, past practice at state terrorism, and a readiness to sell missiles to anyone with the cash to buy. And if ever a people deserved a change of regime, North Koreans surely ...