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<text id=91TT1246>
<title>
June 10, 1991: World Notes:North Korea
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<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.
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</body></article>
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