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è | |  | Cut off talks with North Korea. Move an additional 3 squares. è | Ê
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New York Times is (predictably) concerned about the direction of U.S. foreign policy.
Ä | Snub South Korea’s President Kim Dae-Jung over his détente strategy. ç Move an additional 4 squares. | | Scrap ABM treaty. ç Move an additional 3 squares. |
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| U.S. acts as if it isn't restrained by world opinion (ditch various multinational agreements). Move an additional 2 squares. è | Declare North Korea part of the “axis of evil”. Move an additional 6 squares. è |  | Ê
Wait for Tony Blair to comment on this issue.
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 Ä | In the Nuclear Posture Review, put North Korea on a list of potential targets for U.S. nuclear weapons. ç Move an additional 5 squares. |  | Make disparaging comments about Clinton's handling of North Korea in 1994. ç Move an additional 1 square. |
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| Talk about lowering the threshold for nuclear weapons by making low-yield tactical nukes available for some battlefield situations. Move an additional 4 squares. è | Bush denounces Kim Jong Il as a "pygmy". Move an additional 2 squares. è | China and Russia appeal for deplomacy to work. ç Move back 3 squares. | Ê
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Conservative webloggers get very excited.
Ä | Sen. Richard Lugar presses for cooler heads to prevail. Move back 3 squares. è | Bush compares Kim Jong Il to "a spoiled child at a dinner table." ç Move an additional 2 squares. | U.S. shows how tough it can be, using Iraq as the example. ç Move an additional 3 squares. |
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| Confront Pyongyang with evidence of uranium enrichment program. Move an additional 3 squares. è | Announce new U.S. policy of preemptive action. Move an additional 2 squares. è | Do a little destabilizing missile defense testing. Move an additional 3 squares. è | Ê
Watch Colin Powell go on all the Sunday talk shows and try to talk down the crisis.
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Ä | Bush Assails N. Korean Leader, accuses Kim Jong Il of being "somebody who starves his own people." ç Move an additional 2 squares. |  | Defense Secretary warns N. Korea that U.S. can wage two wars at once. ç Move an additional 1 square. |
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| Reject call for non-aggression pact with N Korea. Move an additional 1 square. è | | Make last-minute emergency call to Jimmy Carter? |  |
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