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North Korea's return to six-party negotiations in Beijing has been accompanied by greater civility and seriousness than many expected. Further, the frequent and direct bilateral contacts that have taken place between the U.S. and North Korean delegations - a softening of the Bush administration's earlier insistence that six- party talks be its only mode of dealing with Pyongyang - have been surprising and welcome.
However, in the absence of U.S. concessions - which should not occur unless North Korea takes several steps beyond the nuclear issue alone - it is doubtful that Pyongyang will agree to the deal being offered. Kim Jong Il and those who rule the DPRK with him need much more than electricity to rescuetheir country from its post- Cold War economic collapse and are thus nearly certain to demand a higher price than electricity for the one major asset they possess.See the full content of this document
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Expand the Six-Party Agenda
Anticipating an impasse, what should the United States and its partners do? As Donald Rumsfeld has argued, the right way of dealing with an unsolvable problem is to enlarge it - an approach we believe proper for dealing with the DPRK's nuclear arsen...
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