Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Ralph Cossa, President of the CSIS Pacific Forum, was quoted by the Washington Post, "North Korea Details Nuclear Program."
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Ralph Cossa, President of the CSIS Pacific Forum, was quoted by the Washington Post, "North Korea Details Nuclear Program."
President Bush today lifted some trade sanctions against North Korea and acted to remove the country from a list of states that sponsor terrorism, after the isolated Stalinist regime turned over a key document detailing its rogue nuclear program.
"No one in Japan is satisfied, but the Bush administration can say we have pressured North Korea to reopen negotiations with Japan about the abductees," said Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu.
Cossa said that the principal regional losers, if North Korea is removed from the terrorist list, will be "Japan and the image of the United States in Japan. The U.S. is now seen as less reliable than it has been for years."
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