Countdown on Korea.

Will U.S. hard-liners torpedo South Korea's rapprochement with the North?

TO MANY AMERICANS, NORTH KOREA IS THE archetypal rogue state, a regime motivated by paranoid hostility to the outside world and dangerously armed with nuclear weapons. Propped up by internal regimentation, a command economy, and a cult of personality, its one-man rule and dogmatic ideology are guaranteed to alienate any liberal-minded American. So are its nasty habit of floating concessions on a sea of threats, its harsh diatribes against the United States, and its history of bizarre and brutal behavior, ...

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