Had we been attentive we could have learned about this gambit earlier, from North Korea.

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After all, what other conclusion can Havana reasonably reach from the cynical, short-sighted Western policies on display in the North Korean reactor-payoff scheme and the Russian-Iranian nuclear gambit?

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While this may well be a gambit involving tacking right before tacking left, this bargaining logic makes a heroic assumption that the North's four-decade-old nuclear program is a mere bargaining chip.

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