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12/30 Howard Dean: Bush's
reckless ideology makes his the most dangerous administration in my lifetime
(PHXnews) -- From Iraq to homeland
security to public health, President Bush's "reckless" habit of
placing "ideology over facts" has resulted in "the most
dangerous administration in my lifetime," Democrat Howard Dean charged
over the past two days. From Iraq to homeland security to public health,
President Bush's "reckless" habit of placing "ideology over
facts" has resulted in "the most dangerous administration in my
lifetime," Democrat Howard Dean charged over the past two days.
12/29 Democrats
schooling Dean on foreign policy (Boston) – The Democratic foreign policy
establishment is rallying to the challenge of educating the party's leading
outsider, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, with Dean seeking to burnish his
credentials and former Clinton administration officials hoping to soften some
of Dean's sharp pronouncements."
12/27 U.S.
and South Korea Try to Redefine Their Alliance (NYTimes) -- As the United States embarks on a
realignment of its global military bases, the shift will perhaps be felt most
intensely here in South Korea, where American soldiers continue to play a
central role even as South Koreans themselves are rethinking their relations
with Americans.
12/27 North
Korea says spat with U.S. is costly (Baltimore) -- North Korea overspent
its military budget this year to boost "offensive and defensive"
strike capabilities in the face of mounting tensions with the United States
over its nuclear weapons programs, a top North Korean official said yesterday.
12/27 The Bush
Doctrine: Wins & losses (WorldNet) -- "Trust but verify," was Reagan's motto in negotiating arms
deals with Mikhail Gorbachev. And sound advice, too, on hearing that Col. Gadhafi
has agreed to forswear nuclear and chemical weapons, and invited in British and
U.S. scientists to give them the run of his laboratories and production
facilities.
12/27 Clark
Attacks Bush Strategy on Terrorism as Mistaken (NYTimes) - Gen. Wesley K.
Clark blamed President Bush for the nation’s heightened antiterrorism alert
status, saying that it was a "strategic mistake" to shift resources
to Iraq.
12/26 Op-Ed
Contributors: Good Nukes, Bad Nukes (NYTimes) -- he Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty is arguably the most popular treaty in history: except
for five states, every nation in the world is part of it. For more than three
decades, it has helped curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
12/26 Saddam
capture changes nothing (Jamaica Gleaner) -- Saddam's capture, celebrated by the American media
in tones which suggest an event of epic proportions, is the greatest
blindsiding and the biggest illusionist's show on the world stage today. It
would be comical if not taken so seriously by the big American media which
dominate global news flows.
12/22 Military
analyst describes Pentagon plan as more lethality with fewer troops (LATimes)
-- Even as the Bush administration seeks a negotiated settlement to the North
Korean nuclear standoff, an intimidating array of high-tech weaponry, much of
it battle-tested in Iraq and Afghanistan, is being deployed south of the
demilitarized zone that divides the Korean Peninsula. The weaponry has quietly
been moved into South Korea since the summer as part of a significant
restructuring of the 37,000 U.S. troops in the country. In return for moving
American soldiers away from the DMZ, the Pentagon has promised Seoul, the South
Korean capital, that it will spend $11 billion to bring in the latest
armaments.
12/22 Headline:
Kerry rips Bush policy (BostonGlobe) -- Presidential candidate John F.
Kerry yesterday used Libya's announcement that it would end its nuclear weapons
program to slam the Bush administration's foreign policy, saying the agreement
with Moammar Khadafy shows what is possible through negotiations
instead of force and threats."
12/18 ROK
not to idle if US uses fists in nuke issue (ChinaPeoplesDaily) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun
said Thursday his government will not remain idle if the United States tries to
resolve the nuclear issue of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
"with fists."
12/18
Expert:
Nuclear terror a reality: Ex-Defense Secretary William Perry speaks about U.S.
security -- The
next decade could bring nuclear terror to a U.S. city unless the country
develops more effective safeguards against the spread of the fearsome weapons,
former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry warned a Monterey Institute for
International Studies crowd on Tuesday.
12/17 S
Korea approves troops for Iraq (BBC) -- President Roh Moo-hyun endorsed the plan, which is set to involve a
mixture of combat and non-combat troops, at a cabinet-level security
meeting. The deployment now
needs to be approved by the National Assembly, where the opposition Grand
National Party has already indicated its backing.
12/17 NK
Lays Out Immigration Rules for Kaesong (KoreaTimes) -- North Korea’s parliament on Dec. 11 adopted
three laws governing human and goods flows in and out of its Kaesong Industrial
Complex, an ambitious inter-Korean business venture situated in the North
Korean city 70 kilometers north of Seoul.
12/16 N.
Korea Steps Up Army Tours Amid Tension (NYTimes) -- From inspecting
washrooms at remote army bases to posing for photos with adoring troops, North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il is making the military rounds in an apparent attempt
to polish his army credentials amid the deepening nuclear crisis with the
United States.
12/14 Bite-Size
Nukes (NYTimes) -- For 50
years the United States has maintained nuclear weapons with the express
intention of not using them. Nukes keep the peace, the thinking goes; they are
more about threatened payback than military utility. But there's a new school
of thought among military thinkers: maybe we should all learn to stop worrying
and love the Bomb -- at least in miniature.
12/14 The
Issues: Dean Formulates a Nuanced Approach to Foreign Policy (NY Times) --
Howard Dean barely paused when asked what he would have done differently had
he, instead of President Bush, been meeting with China's premier this week, in
the midst of a flare-up between Taiwan and China.
12/14 U.S.
Hopes for N. Korea Talks in January (NYTimes) – New talks aimed at
resolving the future of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions could come in
January but not earlier because of the communist state’s continued insistence
on preconditions, senior Bush administration officials said Saturday.
12/13 North
Korean towns hit hard by drop in food aid (NZHerald) -- There is no mistaking the appetites
of the infants at the Ungok nursery in Songrim, a rundown industrial town 40
minutes' drive from Pyong-yang. When lunch arrives, they spoon rice into their
mouths and slurp down seaweed soup with gusto.
12/13
The
Bush administration’s hard-liners are deliberately sabotaging reconciliation
between America and its allies. (NYTimes) -- James Baker sets off to negotiate Iraqi debt forgiveness
with our estranged allies. And at that very moment the deputy secretary of
defense releases a "Determination and Findings" on reconstruction
contracts that not only excludes those allies from bidding, but does so with
highly offensive language. What's going on?
12/13 Envoys
trying to restart talks on N. Korea (StraitTimes) -- Efforts to coax Pyongyang back to
nuclear talks intensified yesterday as Seoul sent a top envoy to Beijing and
European Union delegates returned from a visit to North Korea.
12/12
Hopes
fade in N Korea crisis (Australian) -- HOPES faded today for a quick
breakthrough in the North Korean nuclear crisis, with European diplomats, fresh
from meetings in Pyongyang, saying North Korea shows no sign of compromise and
South Korea and Japan indicating plans for new six-nation talks have been
pushed to the new year.
12/10 N.
Korea Says It Will Be a No-Show at Six-Party Talks (LATimes) -- Dashing
hopes for an early negotiated settlement, North Korea said Tuesday that it
would not show up for the next round of talks on its nuclear weapons unless the
United States first agreed to remove the Communist regime from the list of
terror-sponsoring nations, lift economic sanctions and provide energy
assistance.
12/10 North
Korean Nuclear Talks in Limbo (NYT) -- Six-nation talks on resolving the
North Korean nuclear crisis are up in the air, South Korea's foreign minister
said Wednesday, after the United States rebuffed the communist government's
proposal to freeze its atomic weapons program.
12/10 North
Korea nuclear deal demands not final word - Seoul (Reuters) -- North
Korea's demands for aid and diplomatic concessions in exchange for freezing its
nuclear arms programme are not Pyongyang's final word in the impasse, South
Korean officials and analysts said on Wednesday.
12/09 'Miserable
failure' links to Bush (BBC) -- Web users entering the words
"miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to
the biography of the president on the White House website.
12/09 N.
Korea's Nuclear Success Is Doubted (LATimes) -- The Bush
administration has asserted in recent months that North Korea possesses one or
two nuclear bombs and is rapidly developing the means to make more. The
statements have raised anxiety about a nuclear arms race in Asia and the
possibility that terrorists could obtain atomic weapons from the North Korean
regime. But the administration's assessment rests on meager fresh
evidence and limited, sometimes dated, intelligence, according to current and
former U.S. and foreign officials.
12/09 U.S. rejects North Korean demands on nuclear talks (Reuters) -- The United States on Tuesday rejected North Korea's demand for energy aid and other items in exchange for a freeze on its suspected nuclear arms programs and China said it was too early for fresh talks on the issue.
12/09 N Korea offers deal to freeze nuke program (ABC) -- North Korea says it will freeze its nuclear program if the United States takes simultaneous steps, including removing the communist country from a list of nations sponsoring terrorism. The Stalinist state says it will return to six-nation nuclear crisis talks only after the US meets its demands.
12/07 Neo-Protectionist-in-Chief: Dangerous Bush trade policies. (National Review) -- Rumsfeld and Powell ought to explain to Evans and Rove how Bush's reelection-driven trade policies too often jeopardize U.S. national security. To satisfy parochial domestic interests, Bush's neo-protectionism creates headaches for American soldiers and diplomats abroad. This counterproductive shortsightedness cannot stop soon enough.
12/06 North Korean nuclear crisis talks may be put on hold (StriatsTimes) -- Six- nation talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis may not take place this month and may be pushed back to January or February, a United States official has warned.
12/06 Words, not tantrums, to resolve Korean crisis (Boston Globe) -- AFTER MONTHS of watching North Korea move ahead on nuclear arms without doing anything effective to stop it, President Bush has wisely decided to try negotiating with Kim Jong Il for a change. "He wanted a security agreement," the president told reporters after last month's APEC summit meeting, "and we're willing to advance a multiparty security agreement, assuming that he is willing to abandon his nuclear weapons designs and programs."
12/06 U.S. Has A Shifting Script on N. Korea (WP) -- Three times in the past year, Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly has led a U.S. delegation to meet with North Korean officials. Each time, under instructions from the National Security Council, he has read -- literally -- from a script that had been tightly scrutinized by senior officials from across the Bush administration . Sometimes, Kelly has been held to an NSC-vetted script even when he met just with Japanese and South Korean officials.
12/06 N. Korean refugee describes abuse in Chinese custody (RFA) -- A North Korean refugee now living in South Korea described torture and harassment by Chinese prison guards during the three months she spent in an Inner Mongolian jail, RFA's Korean service reports.
12/06 RELIGION SPREADS IN NORTH KOREA DESPITE SUPPRESSION (RFA) -- A North Korean defector has revealed that there is a small but growing amount of religious activity in the isolated Stalinist state, which decries any form of religious belief as superstition and still monitors all cultural activity by its citizens, RFA's Korean service reports.
12/02 EDITORIAL: KEDO project at a halt (Asahi) -- The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) has announced that work on the construction of light-water reactors in North Korea will be suspended for one year.
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