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Article: Clock is ticking on North Korea crisis, analysts warn.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 19, 2003
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Byline: Tim Johnson
WASHINGTON _ U.S. policy options are dwindling fast on how to halt North Korea's headlong rush to build a nuclear arsenal.
The crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program will dominate talks when Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul, beginning Friday. As it announced Powell's trip on Wednesday, the State Department balanced a demand that North Korea "visibly, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear weapons program" with a hint that the Bush administration would be open to talks, under certain conditions.
"We have no plans to attack or invade North Korea," State Department spokesman ...