Peril or Promise in North Korea?
The ongoing opening in Myanmar (Burma) shows that potentially significant political change need not be accompanied by regional instability. In the case of North Korea, where nuclear arms are in play, it cannot afford to be.
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MADRID – Two days after Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s leader, died in a train in his country, South Korean authorities still knew nothing about it. Meanwhile, American officials seemed at a loss, with the State Department at first merely acknowledging that press reports had mentioned his death.