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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Secret nuclear cities of world's pariah state |
 | | The mountains of North Korea are largely deserted places, limestone and basalt massifs that are covered in snow in winter and humid in summer. |
 | | It is a pace that may suit North Korea and the man at the very centre of this crisis, a man regarded by some as tactically inept, naive, deluded and a borderline psychotic, and by others as an increasingly cunning and intelligent player in his relations with his neighbours and the West. |
 | | For a decade, doves on the North Korean issue have long been arguing for a policy of engagement and support for South Korea's policy of 'sunshine' diplomacy with the North, arguing that the foremost goal of North Korea's leaders is national survival, not the forceful domination of South Korea. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /korea/article/0,2763,866141,00.html (1597 words) |
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