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In the Newspaper Roundup, The National Interest distills the day's foreign-policy editorials.

Trying KSM (November 20)

Although all presidents have indulged in the Friday news dump, President Obama is partaking in it a little more often than his predecessors. And, as you have probably heard, last week's was quite a doozy: Attorney General Eric Holder decided to put 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) on trial. In New York. Although the decision provoked small storm in the conservative blogosphere and generated a few


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by Michael J. Green
Kim Jong Il is dying. Sons, generals and statesmen vie for his throne. With an impressive arsenal of chemical-, biological- and nuclear-weapons programs—not to mention a penchant for proliferation, smuggling, drug dealing and counterfeiting—North Korea will not collapse quietly. The United States must deftly manage Pyongyang’s implosion. If we fail, the fall of the house of Kim could end in a peninsular war or worse.
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by David S. Plotz
Ukraine should serve as a link between America and Russia—not a point of contention.

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