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To: LindyBill who wrote (94446)	4/20/2003 4:05:52 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Now the whole Korean situation seems back up in the air. I wonder if reprocessing really did start... I suspect that it didn’t, and the N. Koreans are just trying to give themselves an edge in the negotiations. If they can offer to stop doing something they actually haven’t started, they can make a conciliatory gesture without giving anything up. A hard game to counter, actually: the only thing we can throw in return is to cancel the talks, which hurts us as much as them. I’ll be interested to see how it plays. One of the key questions here, of course, is how the Chinese will actually approach the negotiations, and how the Americans will. It’s going to require a combination of subtlety and understated strength. I wonder who will be negotiating on our side. Complicated process: the Chinese in particular are no innocents at this stuff. They will be pursuing their own agenda, which is only partially in line with ours, and they have almost certainly been talking on the quiet with the North Koreans all along. It will be very interesting: it looks better than it did a few weeks back, but still a long ways to go.