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For the first time since they began working together, President George W. Bush and his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice are visibly divided on two major foreign policy issues, both related to Israel: The Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, which is still sans date, participants or agenda, and IsraelÂ’s attack on the North Korean nuclear project in Syria on Sept. 6, which the president approved.
As she feared, the resulting exposure of North KoreaÂ’s proliferation activities stirred a hornetsÂ’ nest against her bid to bring diplomacy on PyongyangÂ’s nuclear program to a successful conclusion with signed US-North Korean contracts for its liquidation.
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