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The nuclear issue in North Korea, which had reached a stalemate due to the divisive policy debate in North Korea and unsuccessful talks with the US, achieved a breakthrough when North Korea decided to comply with the freeze offer made by the US. According to the agreement, the US will provide light-water reactors and energy alternatives while North Korea stopped the construction of nuclear reactors. This agreement can be successful only if the US adopts a new Korea policy, and South Korea stops interfering in North Korean politics.

WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION On October 4, 2002, the United States suddenly confronted North Korea with a damning accusation: that it was secretly developing a program to enrich uranium to [...]

David Hoffman on Iraqi media; Martin Gross on the Middle East roadblock; David Outen tackles trade; and others WHO REPORTS? WHO DECIDES? To the Editor: Adeed Dawisha and Karen Dawisha [...]

Claims that India goes into protracted political crisis with the passing of an era under the leadership of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Effect of the Chinese incursion into Indian territory on Nehru's leadership; Criticism of Indian Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan against Nehru's foreign policy; Leadership style of Chavan in contrast with Nehru's; Political leaders who might succeed Nehru; Diplomatic approach the U.S. must adopt in its relationship with India; Claim that there is a strengthened Indian nationalist sensitivities against foreign dependence.

Focuses on the Indo-Pakistan conflict which occurred in 1971. Details about the plan devised by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru for a comprehensive detente in South Asia; Opinion of Nehru about Kashmir in India and East Pakistan problems; Argument given by the Indian government that an autonomous Kashmir in a setting of continuing hostility with Pakistan would only be asking for trouble; Attempt of some West Pakistani leaders to rationalize the debacle in the East by contending that the Bengali Muslims are not really genuine Muslims at all; Precondition for a toward a rapprochement between the two countries.

Examines U.S. relations under U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan as of December 1961. Discussion on the decision of the U.S. to give highly advanced military equipment to one of India's principal potential enemies; Justification of Pakistani fears that the U.S. intends to abandon the government in favor of an Indian-oriented policy; Implications of potential U.S. aid to the projected Afghan Five Year Plan, for the acceptance of Soviet aid offers by Afghanistan.

This article focuses on the World Bank-sponsored negotiations that begin in London on a treaty to govern the shared use of the Indus river-system spanning India and Pakistan. This is the first break in the cold war dating back to the 1947 partition and could foreshadow the emergence of an Indo-Pakistan counterforce to Communist China. The Disability impairing U.S. policy in South Asia was painfully exposed on April 4, 1959-- the day Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru informed the Indian Parliament of the Dalai Lama's escape. This was also the day that Pakistan Air Marshal Ashgar Khan announced he was to get US jet bombers under the military assistance program.

Focuses on political conditions in Baluchistan as of November 1981. Views of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the growing problem of insurgency in Baluchistan; Relations between the Soviet Union and Baluchistan in 1981; Policies adopted by the U.S. administration under the leadership of U.S. President Jimmy Carter towards Baluchistan; Factors that make Baluchistan a focal point of superpower conflict.

Focuses on the Soviet Union's international policy towards India in order to concentrate in Asia. Views that Indian leaders have been waiting for the end of former Russian leader Joseph Stalin's regime in order to improve their relation with Soviets; Response of Indian politicians towards the reversal of post-Stalin policy towards South Asia; Opinion expressed by Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev towards the 1947 Indian Partition during his visit in Kashmir; Tactics of Khrushchev to exploit feelings of Indians by focusing on partition of India and the U.S. policy towards Pakistan; Agreement between Russian and Indian governments for construction of a steel mill and import of finished steel.

Focuses on the visit of Walter Reuther, the U.S. labor leader and politician, to India. Views expressed by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru regarding Reuther visit to his country; Assurance for a long-term policy of the U.S. towards Asia; Reception of Reuther in various cities and states in India; Policy of the Indian government to balance the impact of the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit by giving Reuther a broad platform; Image of Reuther due to his attitude towards labor and African American issues; Opinion that Reuther has received such welcome due to his opposition yo an Asian policy based on military alliances; Stress of Reuther on free labor in a mixed economy with a steadily expanding public sector.

The article focuses on the foreign relations among the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries including Iran and Iraq. It discusses several issues such as the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. forces in 2003 and the potential threat to Iran's security due to the arrival of U.S. military forces and bases on its western border. It focuses on the hope of Iran that Sunni minority rule would cease in Iraq and letting Tehran to regain several of its old influence.

This article focuses on the heated relations between North Korea and the United States. Four days after North Korea signed a denuclearization agreement with the U.S. and other nations aimed at normalizing relations between the two countries, the U.S. branded North Korea a criminal state and imposed sweeping financial sanctions. The author asserts that North Korea's missile tests and planned nuclear test were directly provoked by the U.S. sanctions. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan comments, concluding that the U.S. administration of President George W. Bush is dysfunctional because of a rift between those who wish to negotiate with North Korea, and those who wish to sanction the country.

Examines the January 1961 speech of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev which argued that the policy of coexistence is a form of economic, political and ideological struggle between different forces of imperialism. Public concern over the reformist stance of Khrushchev; Implications of the speech for the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; Overview of the Soviet foreign policy toward China.

Focuses on motives behind the visit of Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru's in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Views of Nehru on U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower; Role of Senator John Sherman Cooper in promotion of the Eisenhower-Nehru talks; Information on India's Second Five Year Plan; Comments on the utility in Indo-U.S. relations; Participation of John Foster Dulles in the post-1952 deterioration of the Indo-U.S. relations; Repudiations of Democratic policy to accept Pakistan's long-standing overtures for military aid over Indian an Afghan protests.

The article focuses on the conversation between the author and Arthur Larson, ideologist of the New Republicanism. Larson discusses his book "A Republican Looks at His Party," maintaining that the President's program and party enshrine the authentic American center. It was the President's absorption with this book during his ileitis recovery that led him to invite Larson's collaboration on his San Francisco speech. Larson agrees that the issues of foreign policy are greater than those of domestic policy which he has developed in his book.

This article presents a letter to the editor in response to a review by Lucian W. Pye of the book "Korean Endgame," published in the May/June 2003 issue of "Foreign Affairs."