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You wouldn't know it from the Obama administration, but North Korea's global threat continues to metastasize. South Korea recently concluded that extensive cyber-attacks against civilian and military targets in the South emanated from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Following China's lead in information warfare, the North is creating yet another asymmetric military capability it can deploy against its adversaries and also peddle for hard currency to other rogue states and terrorists. Although Pyongyang limited its targeting of this particular sortie to South Korea, the potential cyberwarfare battlefield is global and includes the United States, which already is the subject of extensive cyberprobing, exploitation and espionage by China. For a country perennially on the ...
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North Korea's offer to return to the negotiating table later this month could conceivably open the way for diplomatic progress toward a solution to the crisis over its nuclear weapons program. But it's only a limited first step in reaching a compromise between adamant positions on both sides. The Bush administration has been demanding that North Korea dismantle its entire nuclear weapons program before any discussion of improved relations. North Korea has been demanding complete peaceful coexistence before it will consider dismantlement. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been largely responsible for last week's limited breakthrough. She has repeatedly expressed respect for North Korea's sovereignty. And, while not retracting her description of North Korea as an "outpost of tyranny...
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The pro-democracy protests in the Middle East and North Africa have provoked China and Vietnam to crack down harshly on their dissidents lest they think they can emulate the "Jasmine Revolutions." But from North Korea, arguably the most repressive dictatorship in Asia, there continues to be nothing but radio silence. The silence doesn't mean everything is fine there, though. In fact, people are starving, and the situation is dire. It is hard to find the energy to protest when you are focused on survival. Few in North Korea may even know of the changes taking place in other parts of the world. The regime of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il, like that of his father before him, operates with almost total censorship despite the efforts of North Korean exiles and others to smuggle in transistor rad...
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As negotiations over nuclear nonproliferation agreements with Iran and North Korea enter critical junctures, President Bush and his national security team find themselves fully engaged with all three legs of the tripartite "Axis of Evil. The war with Iraq is yielding progress, but at a price. It has cost the lives of nearly 2,000 U.S. servicemen and women. It is straining this nation's military and fiscal resources. It has become a deeply divisive issue among Americans. It is, too, a job we must finish if America hopes to continue progress in the global war on Islamic terrorism.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DRESDEN, Germany Lauren Cheney and Rachel Buehler each scored second-half goals, and the United States opened play at the Womens World Cup with a 2-0 victory over a young, but scrappy North Korea on Tuesday. After peppering North Korean goalkeeper Hong Myong Hui all afternoon, Cheney finally broke through in the 54th minute on a header. Buehler got the second goal of her career in the 76th minute, scoring on a thunderous right-footed strike that rolled beneath the outstretched hand of the diving Hong. When the final whistle sounded, the U.S. reserves ran onto the field to celebrate while the North Koreans stood just beyond midfield, watching. It was the fourth straight time the teams had met in group play at the World Cup, and the Americans have won all but one of ...
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council failed to take action to defuse tensions between North and South Korea on Sunday and diplomats blamed China for refusing to condemn the North for two deadly attacks this year that helped send relations to their lowest point in decades. At the end of an eight-hour emergency meeting called by Russia, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said the vast majority of the 15-member council was insisting on "a clear-cut condemnation" of North Korea but there was no unanimity.
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Cheney focuses on firm terror policies But vice president takes diplomatic tack on Iran, North Korea issues
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BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Military divers plunged into the waters near South Korea's tense maritime border with North Korea on Saturday, searching in vain for 46 missing marines from a naval ship that exploded and sank, officials said. The exact cause of the explosion was unclear, but North Korea did not appear to be to blame, officials said.
