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Concern is rising in the US about the rapidly changing face of Russia after a government expert on Russian nationalities recently predicted that Russia could have a Muslim majority within the next 30 years.
In addition to its own citizens, many of the up to 10 million illegal immigrants working in Russia come [...]
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The only reason that the North Korean regime continues to exist is because of support from China. In effect, China is funding North Korea’s nuclear program. China is a repressive, communist country that is supporting an unstable, nuclear-outlaw state. China is also a huge trading partner of the United States, so, indirectly, [...]
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Foreign Ministry sources said Saturday that North Korea was transferring equipment and technology to Iran that can be used to produce missiles, Israel Radio reported.
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So could it get worse for Bush? Well, in the near future he or a successor could face a “friendly” nuclear arms race closer to home than Asia.
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The world is drifting aimlessly toward nuclear war, and this month’s apparent North Korean nuclear test illustrates the point. But not in the way you’ve likely heard.
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Across the globe many of the West’s hopes for a better world lie in smouldering heaps. The optimism that we felt when freedom swept across eastern Europe is now a distant memory.
We heaved a sigh of relief when the American-Soviet nuclear weapons standoff, based on mutually assured destruction, was dismantled. Now North [...]
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Koreas,
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The declaration last Monday by North Korea that it had conducted a successful atomic test brought to nine the number of nations believed to have nuclear arms. But atomic officials estimate that as many as 40 more countries have the technical skill, and in some cases the required material, to build a [...]
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U.S. intelligence agencies have detected radioactive particles in air samples collected near North Korea’s nuclear testing facility, leading analysts to conclude that the blast detected Monday was a nuclear explosion, Bush administration officials said last night.
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North Korea could be poised to exploit the current crisis to tremendous advantage.
Confident of continued Chinese protection and Russian diplomatic support, the secretive Stalinist state is supposedly signaling a readiness to return to stalled six-party disarmament talks.
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Koreas,
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Surveillance aircraft sweeping Asian skies for a hint of krypton or a sign of strontium have deepened the mystery over North Korea’s claimed nuclear explosion. Was the blast that rocked global politics an atomic fizzle, a mini-test, or simply the thunder from tons of TNT?
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For example, it should be made clear to China’s leaders that if they won’t stand in the way of a nuclear North Korea, we won’t stand in the way of a nuclear Japan – on the contrary, we will strongly encourage such a development. And perhaps Taiwan, too, might be assisted along [...]
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Israel
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Not even Woody Allen, in his wildest Bananas days, would have chanced so hallucinatory a scene: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 21st century’s most prominent anti-Semite, warmly embraced by a dozen Hasidic rabbis with full-body hugs, three-cheek kisses, and smiles befitting a bar mitzvah. Minutes later, all agreed on the undesirability [...]
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Koreas,
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Those of us who served in North Korea risked our personal safety and comfort for our country. We protected America from danger and our efforts delayed the onset of the nuclear crisis we now face. To argue otherwise is to play politics with history.
Jon B. Wolfsthal, who monitored North Korea’s nuclear program [...]
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