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Article: North Koreas offer to talk puts Obama in tough spot
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 28, 2009
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WASHINGTON After being portrayed for years as a reclusive
villain with nuclear ambitions, its North Korea that wants to talk.
And its the Obama administration champion of engaging adversaries
that does not. By insisting that it will not deal one-on-one with
the North Koreans until they return to international negotiations on
nuclear disarmament, has the administration maneuvered its way into
a diplomatic bind? So it would seem. Clearly there is a little bit
of tension in their current situation, said Bruce Bennett, a North
Korea expert at the RAND Corp. think tank. He thinks the U.S. may
have been outmaneuvered at this stage of a seesawing struggle that
dates to 1992, when North and ...