Re: [Fwd: commentary 117]

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From: Victory is Certain <post@victoryiscertain.com>
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Subject: U.S., N. Korea Drifting Toward War
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:38:24 -0700
 
a somewhat chilling article referenced from today's TomDispatch, which we
again recommend heartily for up-to-date analysis of world affairs. sign up
at http://www.tomdispatch.com
 
perhaps Administration officials read this piece, as CNN.com is reporting
today State Department efforts of establishing of a new round of
multilateral talks:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/17/nkorea.nukes/index.html
 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56019-
2003Jul14?language=printer
 
U.S., N. Korea Drifting Toward War, Perry Warns
Former Defense Secretary Says Standoff Increases Risk of Terrorists
Obtaining Nuclear Device
 
By Thomas E. Ricks and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 15, 2003; Page A14

Korean Monarch Kim Jong Il: Technocrat Ruler of the
Hermit Kingdom Facing the Challenge of Modernity
 
Alexandre Y. Mansourov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
 
The Man, his Nature, and the System
 
Who is this 170-centimeter tall man, who dresses up
like a revolutionary in the Mao-style khakie-colored
suits, wears unruly hairdo and big-rim sunglasses, and
puts on narrow-tipped Italian leather elevator shoes;
an 80-kilogram epicure with cultivated taste in
exquisite food and wine who loves French, Japanese,
Russian, and Chinese cuisines; a man of arts in soul
who appreciates music and cinema and is proud of his
20,000-strong universal movie collection, including
all Oscar-winning performances; a dare-devil who has a
passion for car-racing and untamed horse-riding; a man
of letters well versed in ancient Confucian teachings
on statecraft and virtues and contemporary Western
philosophical literature; the "Net man" who challenges
his aides to provide him with data and analyses better
than what he can find by himself surfing daily the
Internet; a conflicted dictator with a black sense of
humor and penchant for self-doubt and occasional
remorse?  
[...]
 
full at
http://nautilus.org/DPRKbriefingbook/negotiating/issue.html