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Selig Harrison Discusses North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Empty Threats from North Korea.

Selig Harrison spent four years as Washington Post Bureau chief in Japan, and is now Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He argues that the nuclear threat posed by North Korea is overstated -- that they are using the "nuclear card to get diplomatic recognition and economic help." Negotiations offer a chance for nuclear disarmament and dismantling throughout the area. He writes, "The only way to stop nuclear proliferation without paying off would-be nuclear powers in one form or another is to move purposefully toward a nuclear free world." (Wash Post, 1/30/94)

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Other segments from the episode on April 6, 1994

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 6, 1994: Interview with Charles Krauthammer; Interview with Selig Harrison; Review of Carol Shields' novel "The Stone Diaries."
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Charles Krauthammer Discusses North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: North Korea Is Clearly Seeking to Build a Bomb.

Syndicated columnist and writer for Time magazine, Charles Krauthammer. He favors an economic blockade of North Korea to force its government to stop any development of nuclear weapons. Of President Clinton's policy on North Korea Krauthammer. has said, "To allow North Korea to flout the nonproliferation treaty and become bomb supplier to every outlaw state on the planet would be Clinton's most humiliating and most dangerous foreign policy retreat yet." (Wash Post 3/25/94).

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