How to get a handle on the axis; Nuclear proliferation.(Despite some setbacks, America still has some options in its dealings with North Korea and Iran) From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 14, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Financial sanctions have a big place in a tool-box designed to thwart the proliferators of Pyongyang and Tehran

THIS hasn't been the finest week for the effort to curb the nuclear ambitions of the two states which, along with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, were once consigned by George Bush to an "axis of evil".

North Korea, which shocked the world with a nuclear-bomb test last October, looks like missing an April 14th deadline--agreed two months ago in six-party talks with America, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia--to shut down and seal its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, and the ...

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