She also has warned that the United States will not normalize ties with Pyongyang or lift sanctions unless North Korea takes irreversible steps toward dismantling its nuclear program.

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Measures needed to legitimize private property, free enterprise, repatriation of profits, etc. must be swiftly enacted and the sort of half-steps and bureaucratic impediments to dismantling the command economy favored heretofore by Gorbachev dispensed with.

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But America and North Korea have very different views of what steps should be taken to achieve this, and how nuclear dismantling should be verified.

ECONOMIST: Six-party talks are to resume. Two cheers