Getting the genie back into the bottle
America, China, Japan and South Korea all need to work together to persuade North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons programme
IN A series of meetings with Asian leaders at the end of this week, George Bush will be trying to prevent a new security crisis from emerging on the Korean peninsula, following North Korea's admission that, in defiance of its promises, it has been secretly enriching uranium that can be used to make nuclear weapons. China's President Jiang Zemin, now on his farewell visit to America as head of state, will be a crucial interlocutor. But Mr Bush may find it hard to persuade him that the North's misbehaviour is as worrying as it looks.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Getting the genie back into the bottle”
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