| |
| | The North Korea Nuclear Issue: The Road Ahead |
 | | North Korea still needed to make a strategic decision to abandon nuclear weapons, after which total elimination would have to be achieved quickly — not via a prolonged series of steps that would give the North opportunities to stall, renege, or extort further concessions. |
 | | North Korea knows the U.S. administration won’t turn up the heat in an election year and, in any event, Pyongyang will await the election results before making changes in its own position. |
 | | The goal would be to force North Korea to accept disarmament on U.S. terms or, if that does not prove possible, to contain, deter, and stifle the regime until it eventually collapses. |
| www.nautilus.org /fora/security/0433A_Einhron.html (1459 words) |
|