The White House's radical new strategy for handling weapons of mass destruction will reduce international cooperation on nonproliferation, not increase it

Pyongyang's belligerent behavior should not obscure other dramatic conciliatory steps North Korea has taken in recent years-steps suggesting that, even now, a solution lies within reach. The trick is to craft a plan that does not reward the North for its misdeeds. In such a plan, all major outside powers should guarantee the security of the entire Korean Peninsula first. This will remove Pyongyang's excuse for nuclear proliferation-and break the deadlock on the world's last Cold War frontier

Russia and the United States have settled on oil as the basis of a new partnership. This move is dangerous, however, because it ignores the divergent interests of the two countries and their inability to influence global oil markets. Indeed, war in Iraq could tear this partnership apart. A far better basis for U.S.-Russian ties would be the two nations' durable common interest in developing and safeguarding nuclear power