The defiant one.(EDITORIALS)

From: The Washington Times | Date: October 10, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Promise, agreement, ultimatum, transgression, failure, threatened catastrophe. Repeat. This, the all-too-familiar pattern of North Korean diplomacy, has now permitted one of the world's most dangerous regimes to declare that it has gone nuclear. Whether the test deep in the mountainous northeast of the hermit kingdom was successful is disputed. It may have been, it may not have been. What is not disputed is this: Either now or at some point i...

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