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- <text id=91TT1246>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: World Notes:North Korea
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- NORTH KOREA
- Coming In from The Cold
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When the going gets tough, the tough...well, go along.
- After denouncing the United Nations for decades, North Korea's
- xenophobic Communist government announced last week that it
- would apply for full membership in the organization--right
- behind South Korea. "As the South Korean authorities insist on
- their unilateral U.N. membership," the North Korean Foreign
- Ministry declared indignantly, "if we leave this alone,
- important issues related to the interest of the entire Korean
- nation will be dealt with in a biased manner on the U.N.
- rostrum."
- </p>
- <p> Pyongyang's decision to join the U.N. is a glaring
- admission that its isolationist policy has been checkmated by
- Seoul's smooth cultivation of North Korea's main patrons, Moscow
- and Beijing. Anxious to extend burgeoning economic ties with
- capitalist--and prosperous--South Korea, neither the Soviet
- Union nor China is eager to oppose South Korea's application for
- U.N. membership, leaving North Korea little choice but to seek
- a seat as well.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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