Show us the money; North Korea's nuclear programme.(North Korea's sulk impedes nuclear diplomacy)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 24, 2007 | Copyright information

After a brief period of amiability, North Korea spits out the dummy, throws a tantrum and toddles off

"A HEADACHE and a hard-to-understand group." Thus South Korea's foreign minister, Song Min-soon, this week, on the topic of North Korea's delegation to six-country talks that resumed in Beijing on March 19th. Nothing new there, and his frustration was shared by officials from America, China, Japan and Russia, the other countries trying to persuade North Korea to abandon ...

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