It would also be hugely unsettling, obliging America to review its region-stabilising troop commitments in South Korea and Japan, and rekindling old rivalries among China, Japan and Russia for influence in Korea.
ECONOMIST: The region is about to get harder to manage, not easier
One possibility is the revival of the six-party forum, chaired by China and involving Japan and Russia.
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Those talks include the United States, North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.
In a region with an already awkward balance between America, China, Japan and Russia, the thaw between the Koreas has set everyone scrambling.
ECONOMIST: The region is about to get harder to manage, not easier
The talks include the U.S., both Koreas, China, Japan and Russia.
Big fish America, China, Japan and Russia already circle each other warily there.
The island runs a large trade surplus, and its foreign reserves are the world's fourth largest, behind China, Japan, and Russia.
The first is that the regime is reverting to familiar gangland tactics to bully its way back to international negotiations under the framework of the stalled six-party talks, chaired by China and including America, Japan and Russia.
But the Bosworth trip could lead to new negotiations between North Korea and the United States, South Korea, Japan and Russia and China.
And Box Office Mojo notes that "The Avengers" pulled off the ninth highest overseas opening ever without debuting in top tier markets China, Japan, and Russia.
Talks between the closed communist state and five nations - the US, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia - on the denuclearisation deal have been stalled since April 2009.
The talks involving the US, North and South Korea, China, Russia and Japan could get underway again as soon as next month.
Nuclear negotiators from the U.S., North and South Korea, China, Russia and Japan spent Friday discussing a draft agreement produced by China, where talks are being held.
The U.S. is adamant that North recommit itself to giving up nuclear weapons, as it did in a 2005 agreement arising from the so-called six-party talks: aid-for-disarmament negotiations hosted by China, and also joined by Japan, Russia and South Korea, that have been suspended for four years.
In addition to the U.S., China, France, Japan and Russia have announced their support of GNEP.
The six-party negotiations include the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia.
Pyongyang has previously said it is willing to restart the six-party talks, which also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Japan, China and Russia are also being invited to compete in Qatar.
It has turned down talks with America under cover of a regional dialogue that would involve South Korea, Japan, China and Russia too.
Many Obama administration officials are also skeptical of reopening the so-called six-party talks with North Korea, which also involve China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Another round of the six-nation talks (which involve officials from North Korea, America, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea) will be held on March 19th.
That is for South Korea, Japan, China and Russia to explore.
The United States, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea are involved in nuclear agreements made earlier in the year that will lead to the disabling of North Korea's nuclear facilities.
North Korea's neighbors -- China, Japan, Russia and South Korea -- and the U.S. have been engaged in a diplomatic effort for five years to persuade North Korea to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution and to show the North Korean government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic stagnation and continued hardship.
North Korea seemed to surprise itself this week by agreeing to a set of principles with America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia to give up its weapons and end its nuclear dabbling so much so, that a day later it was already bad-temperedly backtracking (see article).
The aim of the other five around the negotiating table America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia has been to get him to shut down his bomb factories and (after steadily increasing dollops of trade and investment, and in return for diplomatic ties with America) eventually to give up the bombs he has long claimed to have stashed away.
The United States and Japan, as well as China, Russia and others, have also pledged assistance.
To say that Northeast and East Asia Japan, China, the Koreas, and Russia, with the U.S. as the non-regional but fully engaged player is in strategic military and political transition may be to state the obvious.
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The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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