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Pulling Asia down: North Korea's latest nuclear standoff threatens to derail Asia's growth. Will the region, and the rest of the world, be as ready to appease Pyongyang as it was in 1994? (Cover Story).

From: Business Asia  |  Date: 2/1/2003  |  Author: Ramsay, Randolph

Unpredictable is a word often used by the media when describing North Korea. More specifically, the "unpredictable" tag is labelled at the Stalinist regime's enigmatic ruler, Kim Jong II.

"Everyone is working in the dark and you can provide for any scenario you want to construct," Jim Rolfe at the Asia Pacific Centre for Security said. "The infuriating thing is that North Korea is more or less unfathomable."

But the hermit state's latest round of brinkmanship, this time ...

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