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Washington sometimes forgets that it’s more difficult to move forward when it’s looking back. Preoccupied with base realignment in Japan,…

From time to time I meet an old friend, Inspector O of the Ministry of People’s Security, in different locations…

Washington and Pyongyang may be on the verge of another attempt at negotiation. After a stroke in 2008, Kim Jong Il seems to have spent much of 2009 getting his groove back—launching missiles, testing a nuclear weapon, and separating more plutonium—while Washington looked for new sources of pressure, having cut off North Korea’s access to the international market for everything from yachts to iPods.

At a recent private meeting in London, a former senior United Nations’ official, drawing on experience relating to a wide…