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CIAO DATE: 04/05

Kim Jong Il's Nuclear Winter

Nicholas Eberststadt

February 2005

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

North Korea recently announced that it had “manufactured nukes,” that “these weapons” would be kept “for self-defense under any circumstances,” and that Pyongyang would immediately suspend its participation in further six-party denuclearization talks for an indefinite period. So much for probing North Korea’s nuclear intentions. That game is now over. With the illusions of the international community’s engagement theorists suddenly and nakedly exposed, the rest of us are obliged to face some unpleasant truths about the unfolding proliferation spectacle in the Korean peninsula.

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