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What North Korea's Missile Test Means

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Leon V. Sigal
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The unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile test give both North Korea and the Bush administration an excuse not to negotiate. As such, it misses the point.

The Taepodong-2 test is no bolt from the blue just to get attention. It is Pyongyang's reaction to backtracking by Washington in the ten months since a breakthrough was reached in six-party talks.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 7 , July 2006 , e2
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