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Dec 16 2005, 08:33 AM

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NORTH KOREA: We must be tough, but Bush's name-calling gets us nowhere.
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By E. Benjamin Skinner
E. Benjamin Skinner is writing "A Crime So Monstrous: A Living History of Contemporary Slavery," to be published by Simon & Schuster's Free Press in 2007.

December 11 2005

LISTENING TO President Bush's State of the Union speech nearly four years ago, I thought that putting North Korea in the "axis of evil" made as much sense as including Kim Jong Il on Seventeen magazine's "best-dressed list." But it is a dubious hallmark of this administration that the United States' foreign enemies have a way of living down to our expectations.

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