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ARTICLE: White House Revises N. Korea Nuke Deal (Washington Times)…Nicholas Kralev, April 25, 2008, Pg. 1
The Bush administration is renegotiating a tentative deal with North Korea on a declaration of its nuclear activities to include better verification provisions, after the agreement upset some on Capitol Hill and even in the administration, officials said yesterday.
On April [...]

ARTICLE: N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor
(Washington Post)…Robin Wright, April 24, 2008
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A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials [...]

Army Reserve’s Centennial Birthday - April 23rd
Today is the 100th anniversary of the United States Army Reserve, which began modestly when Congress created the now little-known Medical Reserve Corps. Composed in 1908 of just 160 civilian physicians, this small corps quickly proved a powerful concept: that a reserve force of volunteers that brings its civilian [...]

ARTICLE: The Iraq They Won’t Talk About,
by Amir Taheri, New York Post, April 23, 2008
BOTH opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq seem reluctant to raise the issue of what’s going on there now as an issue in the presidential race.
Opponents, of course, can’t deny that things are better than a year ago - [...]

ARTICLE: Lessons From Dayton For Iraq,
by Richard Holbrooke, Washington Post, April 23, 2008, Pg. 21
SARAJEVO — Twelve years ago, the guns in Bosnia fell silent after a war that killed at least 100,000 people and left more than 2 million homeless. Since then, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement has often been suggested as a model [...]

ARTICLE: CIA To Describe North Korea-Syria Nuclear Ties
(Los Angeles Times)…Paul Richter and Greg Miller
…U.S. officials provided little explanation of why they want to brief lawmakers on the North Korean-Syrian links after declining to do so for months. A senior Senate aide said the timing appears driven by a Bush administration desire to apprise committee members [...]

ARTICLE: U.S. To Link North Korea To Syria
Wall Street Journal, by Jay Solomon, April 23, 2008
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North Korea was helping Syria build a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor before Israel bombed the site last September, the Bush administration is set to tell Congress.
Expectations from the Six Party Talks with North Korea include:
Yongbyon nuclear reactor permanently disabled in [...]

ARTICLE: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, By David, Barstow, New York Times, April 20, 2008
The Pentagon has cultivated “military analysts” in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the Bush administration’s wartime performance.
“…The rules are simple, folks: If you work for a defense contractor, run a defense “consulting” firm or collect a check for [...]

ARTICLE: U.S., South Korea Agree To Pause Drawdown,
Pacific Stars and Stripes)…Ashley Rowland and Hwang Hae-rym, April 23, 2008
The United States will pause the drawdown of its troops in South Korea, military officials from both countries said Monday.
“We reached an agreement to maintain the current U.S. troop level on the Korean peninsula. This is a [...]

ARTICLE: U.S. Team Headed To Pyongyang In Search Of ‘Significant Progress’Washington Post, Blaine Harden, April 22, 2008, Pg. 11
The disclosure-for-aid deal negotiated last fall and due last Dec. 31. For the first time since the United States eased demands on North Korea, a U.S. delegation is headed to the communist state to try to verify [...]