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Recent clashes recall battles with Easternl 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine
Russian soldiers in a military stand
off with NATO troops on a Euro
pean airfield. Consider the United
States hitting a Chinese diplomatic
mission with a missile. Add in a
naval gunfire between North and
South Korea, and sometimes it is
hard to remember the Cold War is
continue to depict the May 7 bomb
ing, which killed three Chinese
journalists, as deliberate and
provocative.
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U.S. policy-makers are sudden
ly confronted with far larger secu
rity issues than those initially at
stake in Kosovo.
“I don’t think we need to exag
gerate this problem,” Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright said of
the standoff between NATO and
200 Russian troops at the airport in
Pristina, Kosovo’s provincial capi
tal.
But as she and Defense Secre
tary William Cohen prepared to go
to Helsinki, Finland, to meet with
their Russian counterparts to try
and sort out Moscow’s peacekeep
ing role, analysts and military ex
perts suggested the airport situa
tion was fraught with the danger of
escalation.
In China, meanwhile. Undersec
retary of State Thomas Pickering
was trying to explain NATO’s
bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in Yugoslavia. Chinese officials
“The fact is we still
live in a divided world,
and China and Russia
often have different
interests from those
in the West. ,,
— Tony Cordesman
Center for Strategic
and International Studies
While NATO’s air campaign
achieved the stated goal of forcing
a Serb withdrawal from Kosovo, it
also rekindled Cold War tensions.
“The fact is we still live in a di
vided world,” Tony Cordesman, a
foreign policy expert at the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies, said, “and China and Rus
sia often have different interests
from those of the West.”
Cordesman sees a fundamental
difference between tod;•
years of nuclear conk
tween a massive Soviet
and the West. Still, he
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Korean patrol boats exchange!
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is vow
ing to pursue its policy of peaceful engagement with
North Korea despite a high-seas shootout that sank
one northern patrol boat, badly damaged five others
and is believed to have killed 30 North Korean sailors.
Even as the rival neighbors blamed each other for Tues
day’s clash in the Yellow Sea, South Korea said it still
hoped to meet with North Korea in Beijing Monday in the
first talks between the two governments in 14 months.
“Our engagement policy with North Korea, based
on strong national security, will be pushed consis
tently,” Hwang Won-tak, President Kim Dae-jung’s na
tional security adviser, said.
North Korea’s reaction was more belligerent. The offi
cial Korean Central News Agency called the;
“deliberate and planned” provocation “aiM:
the situation on the Korean Peninsula to theb'
The North Korean government demanded:
diate South Korean apology.
The fighting presented South Korea'spredl
a dilemma. Ever since the naval standoff*
days ago, Kim has been walking a tightrope-
to pursue his so-called "sunshine policy"wfc|
fend off conservative critics.
“The sunshine policy is a failed policy,”te'
Sang-duk, policy coordinator of theoppositic:
tional Party, said. “It has succeeded only in
more armed provocations from the North.'
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