... Ndumbe and Moki: The Cameroon–South Korea Diamond Project  99 The Cameroon – South Korea (Mobilong) Diamond Project and Its Implication for Sustainable Development in Cameroon J. Ndumbe Anyu and Samuel B. Moki After almost eight decades under...

... to weapons of mass destruction, claiming that countries that develop weapons of mass destruction were always part of his definition of terrorists. And he specifically cited Iraq and North Korea as needing to allow inspectors into their respective countries. In response...

... program. In East Asia, North Korea, a long-time adversary of its southern counterpart, recently declared that it was resuming its own nuclear weapons program after several years’ hiatus. Sandwiched among hostile states, North Korea is also wary of the U.S. military buildup on the Korean peninsula...

... Korea members of the “axis of evil.” While the United States has no leverage over Pyongyang or Tehran, China has good relationships with both countries 2. Lanxin Xiang, “Why Washington Can’t Speak Chinese,” Washington Post, 16 April 2006. 3. Glenn Kessler, “Bush-Hu Meeting to Highlight Role...

... and Congress do decide to build these systems, they will energize acute controversies around the world, many of which will revolve around the core group of the so-called rogues—Iran, Iraq, Libya, and North Korea—and countries that are accused of sponsoring...

... guideposts are lacking. The key flash points that the United States faces in the short term—Iraq, Iran, the Arab-Israeli dispute, Afghanistan, and North Korea—will involve an immense commitment of resources, resolve, and steadfastness on the home front and new ways to cope with new dangers...

... for nuclear confrontation over Kashmir; North Korea under new leader Kim Jong Il continued to act like the old; the Middle East process that offered hope retrogressed into a stalemate of violence and counterviolence; Saddam Hussein continued to develop weapons of mass destruction; the Khatami reformists...

.... Furthermore, the administration’s policy of exporting democracy to ensure stability failed as the radical Hamas group won elections in Pal- estine, and democratic governance eroded in more countries than those in which it advanced. The administration’s invasion of Iraq seemed to make North Korea...

..., such as Korea and Vietnam, the US govern- ment should have just allowed the Soviet Union to overextend itself faster by spending its communism-­constrained resources taking over, occupying, aiding, or shoring up such Third World basket cases. Political containment by America during this process would...

..., they are not identified in the text. 18  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2011 Williamson: A Rising, Emboldened China  19 themselves, but will support the activities of students and others who do, as happened in South Korea in 1987 or in China...

... In the wake of the horrible attacks of 9/11, the United States altered its national security strategy to deal with the possibility of an attack with weap- ons of mass destruction (WMD) from states like Iran or North Korea and even nonstate actors like al Qaeda. The new emphasis on preventive measures...

... compelling reasons. Saddam, after all, violated virtually every international norm of conduct. And countries such as India, Pakistan, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, and South Korea have waged war (as have the French against Algeria) without first securing multilateral permission...

... that nations viewed by the United States as potential adversaries were developing, and would almost certainly have within several years, the capacity to attack the United States with nuclear-capable missiles. Second, on 31 August 1998 North Korea launched its...

... at the University of Maryland, to explain the “anomalous successes” of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea in their foreign relations: Japan without a military capability to project power beyond its territorial waters, Taiwan without a seat in the UN and stripped of formal diplomatic relations with all...

... Incentives in Arms Control (Colum- bia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999). Newnham: Carrots, Sticks, and Bombs  81 such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan to forego WMD programs.13 Even North Korea, an extremely hostile...

... unforeseen by any major Soviet specialist. Some of the surprises have been far less pleasant. Who would have antic- ipated that the two major wars generated by the Cold War would take place first in Korea and later in Vietnam, and that in neither case would there be a direct confrontation...

... them on Fatih’s grave.47 Politicians and journalists were quick to wrap the mantle of Fatih’s hero- ism around Turkish soldiers serving in Korea. Speaking to a crowd assem- bled on 29 May, the mayor of Istanbul, Gokay declared: 45. Morris Kaplan, “Turks Here Will Sip ‘Lion’s Milk’ to Mark...

... military solidarity. Concerns mounted in early 2002 when President Bush, without prior consultation with U.S. allies, characterized Iraq, North Korea, and Iran in his State of the Union address as an “axis of evil,” imply- ing that no diplomatic accommodation was feasible or worthy of serious con...

... percent in 2013.7 Confronted with these sanctions, the Iranian authorities pursued several strategies, including diversifying its export markets, mainly by shifting to China, India, Japan, and South Korea. On the supply side, the focus has 5. Energy Information Administration (EIA...

... Although he stressed that the program would be entirely peaceful, his proposal had all the earmarks of a hedging strategy. As we have seen with India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran, “peaceful” nuclear pro- grams can easily become the foundation for a nuclear weapons program. Whether...