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North Korea Flip Flops

North Korea Flip Flops

(Global Pulse: February 5, 2009) Having to contend with a new U.S. administration and a newly unsympathetic South Korea, Kim Jong Il's North Korea is running hot and cold - offering friendship and denuclearization one day, threatening war and hurling insults the next. Are they confused, crazy, or just using a strategy that's worked before?

 

SOURCES: KBS, South Korea; RT, Russia; Press TV, Iran; New Tang Dynasty TV, U.S.; Fox News, U.S.; BBC, U.K.; CCTV, China; North Korea Central Broadcasting, North Korea; The Economist, U.S.; Time Magazine, U.S.

North Korea Flip Flops

(Global Pulse: February 5, 2009) Having to contend with a new U.S. administration and a newly unsympathetic South Korea, Kim Jong Il's North Korea is running hot and cold - offering friendship and denuclearization one day, threatening war and hurling insults the next. Are they confused, crazy, or just using a strategy that's worked before?

 

SOURCES: KBS, South Korea; RT, Russia; Press TV, Iran; New Tang Dynasty TV, U.S.; Fox News, U.S.; BBC, U.K.; CCTV, China; North Korea Central Broadcasting, North Korea; The Economist, U.S.; Time Magazine, U.S.

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