Monday, November 29, 2010

News Alert: Leaked Cables Depict a World Guessing About North Korea

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The New York Times
Mon, November 29, 2010 -- 4:32 PM ET
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Leaked Cables Depict a World Guessing About North Korea

With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises,
American and South Korean officials early this year secretly
began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by one
of the world's most brutal family dynasties, collapsed,
according to a cable from the American ambassador.

However, the cables on North Korea, part of a cache of secret
State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks and made
available to a number of news organizations, are long on
guesses and short on facts, even when containing the thoughts
of diplomats from China, the North's ally.

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Other documents reveal painstaking efforts by the United
States to safely reduce the population of the Guantánamo Bay
prison in Cuba so it could eventually close. American
diplomats went looking for countries that were not only
willing to take in former prisoners but could be trusted to
keep them under close watch. In a global bazaar of sorts, the
officials sweet-talked and haggled with their foreign
counterparts.

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