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  List of Aragonese Presidents|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
president in an older sense of the word to denote the fact that he or she heads the ''cabinet''.
The President is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly (the Swiss Parliament) for a year; and the President is merely ''primus inter pares'' (first among equals).
In FranceFrench legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", ''Monsieur le Président'', or appropriate feminine forms).
www.echostatic.com /List_of_Aragonese_Presidents|President.html   (2071 words)

  
 U.S.-North Korea Relations
The resulting Agreed Framework required that North Korea freeze its nuclear program in exchange for shipments of heavy fuel oil from the U.S. and two light-water nuclear reactors to be built by an international consortium funded largely by Japan and South Korea.
North Korea, in the grip of a food crisis and a general economic collapse, is desperate to earn hard currency.
For North Korea to feel safe giving up its missile development program, the U.S. must work with the other countries in the region to reduce militaries and strengthen confidence-building measures-including consultations among defense officials, notification of military maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, and the exchange of information about defense expenditures.
www.lightparty.com /Politics/ForeignPolicy/NorthKoreaRelations.html   (2537 words)

  
 Presidents Bush, Jiang Discuss Terrorism, North Korea
On North Korea, Bush said that he "was deeply concerned about a regime that is not transparent and that starves its people." Bush reiterated the U.S. offer to meet with the North Korean regime and asked for China's help in conveying that message to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
President Bush, on the question of strategic nuclear policy, you've said you want to develop a missile defense system in order to defend the United States and its allies from the threats and dangers of the 21st century.
President Bush, he has much more experience than I. (When it comes to meeting the press, I think President Bush is much more experienced.) (Laughter.) I will do my best to answer your question.
www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/peace/archives/2002/february/022201.html   (2809 words)

  
 list of premiers of north korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Encyclopedia Entry for list of premiers of north korea
Dictionary Definition of list of premiers of north korea
See also: List of Presidents of North Korea
www.yourencyclopedia.net /list_of_premiers_of_north_korea.html   (89 words)

  
 Untitled Document
North Korea took umbrage at being lectured in an overbearing manner about a non-existent nuclear weapons program by a representative of the nation that was threatening it with nuclear weapons.
North Korean officials correctly gauged that KEDO had no intention of completing work on the light water reactors, and they resented the expectation that they were obligated to continue adhering to the terms of the Agreed Framework while the other party failed to honor even one provision.
North Korea’s public utterances in June 2003 suggest the possibility of a research program and that a decision was made to accelerate the pace of a nascent weapons program in response to its vulnerability to military attack.
www.zmag.org /elich_korea.htm   (17120 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: The Hermit Nuclear Kingdom
North Korea is the most secretive country in the world today, with its main railway lined with walls so high that its foreign passengers can't see the countryside.
North Korea is in the news these days mostly because of its nuclear activities, which were badly exacerbated by Bush's inept handling of negotiations over them.
Korea was fertile ground for Christianity in the early twentieth century, partly because Christianity was a way to quietly express defiance of the Japanese colonial rulers who had formally annexed the country in 1910.
www.nybooks.com /articles/17721   (4085 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
While Presidents George Bush of the United States and Jiang Zemin of China were amiably agreeing on Friday that the Korean peninsula should be free of nuclear arms, the North Koreans were thundering that they had every right to the weapons and might give them up only if a long list of conditions was met.
Meantime, the official (North) Korean Central News Agency, quoting an unnamed spokes-man for the Foreign Ministry, said the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea "was ready to seek a negotiated settlement" on three conditions: The United States recognizes the DPRK's sovereignty, signs a non-aggression treaty and does not hinder economic development of North Korea.
The North Koreans were up to their old tricks of diplomacy by diatribe and evidently figured, as they have before, that the United States was preoccupied with the campaign against terror and Iraq and could be pressed for concessions.
starbulletin.com /columnist/column.php?id=1518&col_id=8   (673 words)

  
 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)

  
 List of Presidents of Niger|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin ''prae-'' "before" + ''sedere'' "to sit").
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
Take Makarios IIIArchbishop President Makarios, he became president of Cyprus late in his life (in 1960), and managed to rule until his death in 1977, but he happened to have been electionelected several times.
www.echostatic.com /List_of_Presidents_of_Niger|President.html   (2071 words)

  
 U-S / NORTH KOREA
The mere fact that North Korea decided to send a high-ranking military officer instead of Kang Sok-Ju, the vice foreign minister, I think is significant enough to arouse a measure of cautious optimism that a kind of breakthrough may be in the making.
Professor Kim says it is especially significant that North Korea sent a military officer and that he was accorded a meeting in the White House.
Kim says North Korea probably wanted to make some major concessions and move relations forward with the United States during the Clinton administration because the next U-S president may not be as willing to do so.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/2000/dprk-001012d.htm   (670 words)

  
 "Rolling Blunder" by Fred Kaplan
President Bush made the case for war in Iraq on the premise that Saddam Hussein might soon have nuclear weapons--which turned out not to be true.
But the revelation about North Korea's secret enriched-uranium program strengthened the hand of the administration's hawks--especially Cheney and Rumsfeld--who felt that North Korea couldn't be trusted in negotiations and, more to the point, that negotiations were the wrong way to deal with such regimes in the first place.
During this meeting, Li Gun, North Korea's very experienced deputy foreign minister, announced that his country now had nuclear weapons--he referred to them as a "deterrent"--and said the weapons would not be given up unless the United States dropped its "hostile attitude" toward the regime.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2004/0405.kaplan.html   (5266 words)

  
 Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has, in fact, implemented economic-liberalization measures that, in the case of the 2002 reforms, were surprising in their scope.
Kaesong Special Economic Zone is another foray by North Korea into "enclave capitalism" in which it creates an encapsulated environment for foreign firms to generate profits for the regime to use to subsidize its failing socialist economy.
The bellicosity of North Korea that constrains international largess, however, at the same time forces governments to remain at the negotiating table in hopes of preventing escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FI01Dg01.html   (1590 words)

  
 CNN.com - Albright holds historic talks in North Korea - October 23, 2000
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made history Monday when she met leader Kim Jong Il in North Korea and began laying the groundwork for a possible visit by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Images of Kim's father and North Korea founder Kim Il Sung were everywhere as Albright traveled from the airport to downtown, a reminder of the country's communist origins more than 50 years ago.
North Korea's support for the Japanese Red Army, and, in particular, its practice of providing a safe haven for some of the members, remains the primary obstacle to its removal from the list.
archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/10/23/albright.korea   (817 words)

  
 Victor Gilinsky & Henry Sokolski on North Korea on National Review Online
President Clinton promised Pyongyang this energy aid in l994 as part of an "agreed framework" to keep it from making nuclear weapons.
A simpler, sounder approach would be to follow North Korea's enrichment imports and demand that it surrender what it has gained.
At this point, North Korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear-weapons options and is using them and the threat of renewed missile testing to extort Japan.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-sokolski110602.asp   (1026 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: Appeasing North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I mean, her president, have not been the target of a hurricane of right-wing hate speech for negotiating with one of the world's most odious regimes.
Given the North Korean's rap sheet, it's not unreasonable to assume that Kim was trying to have his bomb and eat it, too.
But since then the North Koreans have reprocessed an unknown number of spent fuel rods from their existing graphite reactors, allowing them to produce an unknown amount of plutonium that could used to build an unknown number of nuclear warheads.
billmon.org /archives/002176.html   (2032 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of Presidents of the British Virgin Islands
List of presidents of the Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
List of Presidents of the French National Assembly
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-25001   (70 words)

  
 Winds of Change.NET: North Korea Briefing: 2003-05-06
Reporting from South Korea, The Marmot's Hole offers translations and a conclusion: "...why they would now permit the KTU to engage in such hate-mongering now is anyone's guess.
While he was managing an underground church in North Korea, he brought Bibles and Christian books to North Korea, crossing over the Tumen River (the border line between China and North Korea) several times a year.
Unsurprisingly, South Korea is dragging its feet on troop relocation; they prefer to have the hostages American Army firmly in place within Seoul.
www.windsofchange.net /archives/003433.php   (2584 words)

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