North Korea Satellite Launch — the End of Nuclear Talks?

摘要

With North Korea’s announcement Friday, Mar. 16, that it will use a longrangerocket to blast a satellite into space sometime between Apr. 12 and16, the offer of resumed nuclear talks in exchange for US food aid looksless certain (NIW Mar.2’12). “If North Korea does conduct the launch, itkills the food deal,” Dan Pinkston, a Seoul-based security expert at theInternational Crisis Group, told the Washington Post. “For the Obamaadministration, it becomes politically impossible.”