Nobody's Satellite State: Banyan  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8777 (Mar. 2012), page 35.
Topik: International Relations; Diplomacy; Missiles; Foreign Aid; Nuclear Weapons

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Like a candle in a howling gale, optimism about North Korea is hard to keep alight. The latest flicker of hope was snuffed out on March 16th, when North Korea announced its plan to make the 100th birthday next month of its late but eternal president, Kim Il Sung, go with a bang. His grandson, the country's juvenile new leader, Kim Jong Un, intends to mark the centenary with the launch of a home-made satellite, the Kwangmyongsong-3. This seems certain to scupper the agreement with the United States announced on February 29th that had spawned a fragile little hope: under the deal, North Korea would observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, uranium enrichment and missile launches, and allow inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog into the country to monitor this. For its part, America agreed to provide 240,000 tonnes of food aid (as a humanitarian gesture, it insisted, not a direct quid pro quo). North Korea needs the food more than the satellite. Its people had long been promised that their founder's centenary would be marked by their nation's emergence as "a strong and prosperous power". Instead it is in the grip of grinding poverty and the imminent threat of mass hunger.

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