Foreign Policy in Focus articles from December 2002

Foreign Policy in Focus archives from December 2002

Responding to North Korea's surprises.
December 1, 2002... For a supposedly changeless, monolithic state, North Korea shakes up the staid world of diplomacy with surprising frequency. In the last four months, Pyongyang has initiated dramatic economic changes, stunned Japan with its confession of...

Problems with current U.S. policy.(relation with North Korea)
December 1, 2002... The Bush administration signaled early on that it considered the Clinton approach of engaging North Korea tantamount to appeasement. In 2001, Bush snubbed Kim Dae Jung's policy of engaging the North and put the brakes on the progress the...

Toward a new foreign policy.(U.S. policy toward North Korea)
December 1, 2002... Pyongyang has long recognized that nuclear weapons are one of the few deterrents that the U.S. takes seriously when contemplating regime change. "We won't be next," they are telling a U.S. government bent on replacing Saddam Hussein. At the...

Trade is a women's issue.
December 10, 2002... Key Points * Global trade's profits rely on the labor of women workers worldwide, as women make up more than half the work force in the light manufacturing industries that provide most of the world's household goods. * Women workers...

Problems with current U.S. policy.
December 10, 2002... Key Problems * Trade agreements may contain general language addressing workers' rights, but in many cases these standards do not include specific protections for women. * Trade unions have found it difficult to organize women workers,...

Toward a new foreign policy.
December 10, 2002... Key Recommendations * Washington must include antidiscrimination language in its definition of "internationally recognized worker rights." * The U.S. should take an active role in encouraging further work by the ILO to address...

Sources for more information.
December 10, 2002... Organizations AFL-CIO Public Policy Department 815 16th Street MW Washington, DC 20006 Voice: (202) 637-3907 Fax: (202) 508-6967 Email: tlee@aflcio.org Website: http://www.aflcio.org/ Contact: Thea Lee, Assistant Director ...