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Article: South Korea and Japan Reaching Out to North Korea
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- The Washington Post
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- May 9, 2004
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Top U.S. allies in Asia are opening new lines of communication
with North Korea, seeking direct dialogue on a host of sensitive
issues such as nuclear proliferation, even as the Bush administration
continues to reject broad engagement.
The South Korean and Japanese governments reacted with new
urgency, analysts said, after U.S. intelligence indicated that North
Korea had built up an arsenal of at least eight nuclear devices over
the past 20 months.
Two rounds of disarmament talks in Beijing involving high-level
delegations from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea
and North Korea have failed to produce results. With North Korea and
the United States at loggerheads, the ...