Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday in Jakarta, where she pushed for broader relations with Indonesia. Mast Irham/European Pressphoto AgencyFrom The New York Times:
SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that a potential power struggle to succeed North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, had injected a troubling new element into negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
The jockeying to succeed Mr. Kim, 67, who suffered a stroke last August and has only partially recovered, raises pressure on the United States, South Korea, China, and other countries to revive the sputtering negotiations, Mrs. Clinton said to reporters on her plane before arriving in Seoul.
“If there is a succession, even if it’s a peaceful succession, that creates more uncertainty, and it may also encourage behaviors that are even more provocative, as a way to consolidate power within the society,” said Mrs. Clinton, on her first foreign trip as secretary of state.
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