A Failure to Communicate
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Administration hawks raise the bar in talks over North Korea

By William Dobson
Newsweek International

Jan. 12 issue - Chinese diplomats are losing their patience over the
tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The source of their frustration
isn't so much the tough talk coming from Pyongyang as much as the
apparent unwillingness of Washington to say much at all. Beijing plans
to host the next six-party summit on the North Korean nuclear
crisis?it hopes before the Chinese New Year later this month?and
Chinese strategists are worried the Americans will be as cool to their
North Korean counterparts as they were at the last meeting in August.
In those talks, Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly showed up
under strict orders to present an opening statement that had been
cleared word for word by the White House?and nothing more. When the
North Koreans sought to clarify Kelly's comments in a private meeting,
Kelly had no choice but to stick to his script. "His response to the
North Koreans was, 'Go back and read my opening statement. It's all
there'," says Charles L. Pritchard, a North Korea expert at the
Brookings Institution, who is part of an unofficial U.S. delegation
that was invited last week to visit the North's nuclear complex at
Yongbyon.

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