Excerpt: This paper outlines strategic considerations regarding U.S. policy with respect to North Korea, and concludes that the current policy being pursued by the Bush Administration is, rightly, wary of North Korean trustworthiness and intentions. The current policy, however, also overestimates the threat to the U.S. homeland posed by the Democratic Peoples? Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K); overestimates the possibility of coercing North Korea into taking positive actions ...
Excerpt: INTRODUCTION; While the relationship between the United States and North Korea has been effectively stalled for sixty years, this could be changing. A diplomatic and economic client of the Soviet Empire, North Korea was severely affected by the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 (1, 2). Set adrift from the Soviet bloc, suffering from almost a decade of famine, North Korea is being forced to alter the way in which it interacts with the rest of the world, or face ...
Excerpt: In October 1956, Mao Tse-tung ordered the start of China?s space program. Four years later, on 5 November 1960, China launched its first rocket, becoming the fourth country, behind Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union, to enter space. Today China routinely launches space satellites for Western companies, including U.S. corporations, and is increasing its share of the global space launch market. But the Chinese also use the technology and assistance g...
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