George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could be the same person. They just look different. A South Korean will head the United Nations. Turkey is meddling in Kirkuk. The tide of history is turning in Latin America. Cheney is actually a reincarnation of LBJ, and there's more to the flap between Georgia and Russia than meets the eye. Indeed, many wild things were asserted in the world's English-language op-ed pages this week. But far more outrageous claims could have been made. No, wait, they were: North Korea said it's going to detonate a nuke. On what may have prompted this announcement, Peter Brookes opined in the Oct. 6 New York Post that "Pyongyang can't help but notice all the time and effort going into bribing Iran to swear off nukes: Tehran's not only getting all the attention, the mullahs are being offered all the best bribes, too -- all manner of economic and trade incentives, for starters, from the European Union."
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