North Korea’s Kim Game for 'Let’s Make a Deal': William Pesek
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March 2 (Bloomberg) -- The deadliest words in economics are“This time things are different.” They are even more perilouswhen applied to a nuclear power run by a paranoid, repressiveregime. In other words, North Korea.
We have every reason to roll our eyes and scoff at Kim JongUn’s first foray into diplomacy. In his debut, he pledges tohalt nuclear tests and long-range missile launches. You can seeby the muted reactions in Seoul and Tokyo that Asia is deeplyskeptical, and it has every reason to be.