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Dealing with North Korea
Bill Powell says in his recent cover story on North Korea that the leadership, "for reasons only they can fathom," are determined to continue the coldest of wars [June 22]. North Korea has never varied in its determination to conquer the south. Only the fear of U.S. nuclear retaliation stops their invasion. The nuclear program is designed to prevent this by the threat of mutually assured destruction.
Brad Elliott,
North Rocks, Australia

China and the U.S. have long used the Korean peninsula as an ideological...

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