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UPDATE: I’ve posted grafs from TAE’s North Korea issue here. All authors are excerpted, including Daniel Kennelly, Gordon Cucullu, Victor Davis Hanson, Nicholas Eberstadt, and Ambassador James Lilley. I strongly recommend that you just buy the whole thing. Hey, it’s only seven bucks. Original Post: The American Enterprise’s June issue focuses on North Korea, and has rounded up the thoughts of some of Washington’s strongest thinkers on the subject, including Victor Davis Hanson, Gordon Cucullu, Nicholas Eberstadt, and Ambassador James...

Recent events in the Middle East are melting my pessimism and cynicism about the region. Events that I had thought would take decades seem to be emerging in months. The news from Iraq recently is downright encouraging: Iraqi citizens are taking up arms against the terrorists. In three different cities across Iraq, the people have also engaged in apparently spontaneous demonstrations against terrorists, extremists, and the government of Jordan, which Iraqis belive has tacticly tolerated support and sanctuary for them....

Recent events in the Middle East are melting my pessimism and cynicism about the region. Events that I had thought would take decades seem to be emerging in months. The news from Iraq recently is downright encouraging: Iraqi citizens are taking up arms against the terrorists. In three different cities across Iraq, the people have also engaged in apparently spontaneous demonstrations against terrorists, extremists, and the government of Jordan, which Iraqis belive has tacticly tolerated support and sanctuary for them....

North Korea is losing–indeed, has probably lost–what Mao termed “the political struggle.” I just don’t have time to comment on this NY Times piece in detail now, but it’s an absolute must-read. The system’s hold on the minds of the people has never looked so shaky. So just how easy is it for a North Korean to break the blockade these days? “He just dials 0082 to get the Korean-speaking Chinese operator, then makes a collect call to here,” Mr....

North Korea is losing–indeed, has probably lost–what Mao termed “the political struggle.” I just don’t have time to comment on this NY Times piece in detail now, but it’s an absolute must-read. The system’s hold on the minds of the people has never looked so shaky. So just how easy is it for a North Korean to break the blockade these days? “He just dials 0082 to get the Korean-speaking Chinese operator, then makes a collect call to here,” Mr....

Condi Rice’s comments on Korea contained no major surprises. We want talks; we have no intention of invading. A nice word in there about the South Korean deployment to a safe location guarded by Kurdish militia Iraq. All things you’d expect a diplomat to say. She was generally prepared, but even when she was, her answers sounded canned and tinny. My overall impression, however, was dissatisfaction that she didn’t really answer some of Babs Boxer’s tough questions on Iraq, but...

Condi Rice’s comments on Korea contained no major surprises. We want talks; we have no intention of invading. A nice word in there about the South Korean deployment to a safe location guarded by Kurdish militia Iraq. All things you’d expect a diplomat to say. She was generally prepared, but even when she was, her answers sounded canned and tinny. My overall impression, however, was dissatisfaction that she didn’t really answer some of Babs Boxer’s tough questions on Iraq, but...

The media sing in unanimity that the “distracted” Bush Administration can’t beat the terrorists. Meanwhile, in the space of a year, Libya has gone from honorable mention for the Axis of Evil to quasi-ally (though still mostly despicable), actually catching key remnants of a vicious al-Qaeda linked terrorist group from Algeria. Remember the Millenium Bomb plot? The would be bomber came from Algeria’s radical Islamic insurgency. A few years ago, those groups were poised to make Algeria the next Afghanistan....

The media sing in unanimity that the “distracted” Bush Administration can’t beat the terrorists. Meanwhile, in the space of a year, Libya has gone from honorable mention for the Axis of Evil to quasi-ally (though still mostly despicable), actually catching key remnants of a vicious al-Qaeda linked terrorist group from Algeria. Remember the Millenium Bomb plot? The would be bomber came from Algeria’s radical Islamic insurgency. A few years ago, those groups were poised to make Algeria the next Afghanistan....

They did not reactivate the reactor until George W Bush unwisely terminated the AF in 2002. The reactor remained intact and fully able to resume reprocessing whenever N. Korea declared itself sufficiently provoked, which it did when North Korea admitted violating the Agreed Framework (which called for North Korea’s complete denuclearization) and Bush refused to simply tolerate it and keep paying up. Meanwhile, N. Korea was perfecting a massive chemical arsenal by testing it on prisoners, lobbing missiles over Japan,...

They did not reactivate the reactor until George W Bush unwisely terminated the AF in 2002. The reactor remained intact and fully able to resume reprocessing whenever N. Korea declared itself sufficiently provoked, which it did when North Korea admitted violating the Agreed Framework (which called for North Korea’s complete denuclearization) and Bush refused to simply tolerate it and keep paying up. Meanwhile, N. Korea was perfecting a massive chemical arsenal by testing it on prisoners, lobbing missiles over Japan,...

Excerpts from The American Enterprise, July/August 2005 To read the articles in full, buy your own here. Just seven bucks. If you found this article interesting, consider that it caused South Korea to pull its funding for AEI (scroll down). I’m renewing my AEI membership as a small token of my disapproval of any foreign government trying to control what I read, especially this one, and also because the magazine is always interesting reading and well worth a hundred bucks...

Are We Certain that North Korea Was the Source? No one ever said we were, of course, but today, dedicated axis-of-evil skeptic Glenn Kessler, has written a second WaPo piece on the story in as may days, this time raising doubts, via the IAEA (remember them?), about the U.S. conclusion that North Korea was Libya’s supplier: IAEA tests on the same container — using samples taken at the same time the United States took samples last spring — did not...

Are We Certain that North Korea Was the Source? No one ever said we were, of course, but today, dedicated axis-of-evil skeptic Glenn Kessler, has written a second WaPo piece on the story in as may days, this time raising doubts, via the IAEA (remember them?), about the U.S. conclusion that North Korea was Libya’s supplier: IAEA tests on the same container — using samples taken at the same time the United States took samples last spring — did not...