North Korea

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A taste of North Korean beer propaganda
Just because it's hyperbolic and historically inaccurate doesn't mean it's wrong
The fate of the Earth, the Bush years
Jonathan Schell: "Everybody who has ever marched against nuclear weapons should dust off their boots and get back in the fray."
Three questions for Mike Powell
A music writer offers a glimpse at the Orwellian world of North Korean pop music -- complete with song samples.
Wagging the "Big Dog"
In desperate straits, the GOP has reverted to blaming the Clinton administration for its failed policy toward North Korea.
Bush on his North Korea plan: Clinton's "didn't work"
Despite an apparent nuclear test, the president says he's making progress because other nations are involved.
White House: It's "silly" to ask whether Bush was right on North Korea
Tony Snow says presidents deserve the benefit of the doubt.
North Korea fallout
Kim Jong Il's nuclear test could set off a new arms race in Asia. Yet the White House has no viable plan for stopping the global spread of nukes.
The axis of evil
Four and a half years ago, George W. Bush vowed to prevent what happened Sunday night.
Destination: North and South Korea
The "black hole" of Asia and its estranged brother to the south are revealed in books from a political refugee, an American mountain man and a war veteran.
Swaggering to nowhere
As the Mideast burns and North Korea threatens, the once-boastful president has no policy and is reduced to pathetic bleats.
Tastes great, less filling
From Tony Snow, a lesson in Preemption Lite.
The Iraq report
Progress? That would be one word for it.
Missile? What missile?
News reports say that the North Korean missile flew farther than the White House acknowledged -- and that it was pointed toward Hawaii.
The sweet sounds of North Korea
Deadly silence
Bush's obstinate refusal to hold one-on-one talks with North Korea has only made the secretive state more paranoid and hostile.
Slave labor and the North Korean bomb
South Korea exploits the North ... in a good cause?
Remember the "axis of evil"? It's getting harder and harder to forget
A warning from Iran. Missile shots from North Korea. And then there's Iraq.
"What you see is what you get"
As the only serious candidate so far in the 2006 governor's race, New Mexico's Bill Richardson can afford to be in-your-face -- and to start planning for 2008.
The nuclear bully
The Bush administration tried and failed to strong-arm the rest of the world on nukes. As a result, the chances of runaway proliferation are higher than they've been in decades.
Going ballistic over nukes
How much brinkmanship with Iran and North Korea can there be before the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty implodes?
How they learned to love the bomb
Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.
All democracy, all the time
A new bill proposes to rid the world of dictators by 2025. But critics deride it as a pie-in-the-sky cover for Bush's failures.
"An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle
Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
Are we safer now?
The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
A spiral of destruction
An expert in North Korea's military power says even a small spark could quickly lead to a rain of artillery shells, a chemical attack -- even nuclear war.
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