THE PROBLEM OFNorth Ko-rea has bedeviled policy makers in Washington for years. The notoriously opaque Stalinist state thatsits above the 38th Parallel represents oneof the world's most intractable security di-lemmas. Starting this spring, however, thechallenge posed by Pyongyang has grownmore acute. The defiant series of nuclearand ballistic tests carried out by Kim JongIl in May has brought into sharp focus thegrowing threat posed by the North's strate-gic arsenal—and precipitated a frenzy of in-ternational activity in response.
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