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Article: North Korea Knows How to Get Attention
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- July 8, 2006
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WASHINGTON - North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
It's called coercive diplomacy. North Korean-style, it has involved antagonizing everyone on and over the horizon, foes and allies alike, and then pulling back. Sometimes just in the nick of time.
While few would call the North Korean leadership predictable, certain things are expected of it. That's the case now, in the storm of condemnation and diplomatic maneuvering set off by North Korea's in-your-face missile tests.
"When diplomacy ...