wtop.com - 11/13/2008
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By The Associated Press (AP) - Statements by the presidential candidates on North Korea 's agreement to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands. In response, the Bush administration on Saturday removed the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. ___ Republican presidential candidate John ...
democracyarsenal.org - 11/17/2008
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Prompted by Matt Eckel over at Foreign Policy
Watch, I thought I'd offer thoughts on what looms...
on the nuclear weapons policy agenda. Matt uses a recent speech by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Foreign Affairs article by Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal ...
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What To Do About Nukes
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Tomgram: John Feffer, Can Washington Make Sense of North Korea?
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[Note for TomDispatch readers: As has been the case about once a week for the last month, this piece is accompanied by a podcast interview with the author. These podcasts are the first venture made possible by reader contributions to the site. This week, thanks again to you, we just committed some money for the first time to a writer who needed travel expenses to cover a story for us. This is a real luxury. But I realize that, much as I want to thank each reader who has clicked on the new "Resist Empire, Support TomDispatch" button and contributed, I haven't done so. The truth is: I need about three more ...
The North Korean Conundrum
Antiwar.com Original —
... , "On North Korea, Obama will inherit a process that is probably in worse shape than what Clinton left for Bush." Who can question this, given that the North has now actually tested a nuclear weapon and declared itself a nuclear power? When queried during the campaign on his attitude toward the latest agreement on verifying the partial rollback of the North Korean nuclear program, Obama's response, peppered with run of the mill American threats, seemed only marginally different from that of the Bush administration. "If North Korea refuses to permit robust verification," he ...
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