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Phone Lines Hot Over
Israel-North Korea
JAMES D. BESSER
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
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J
ewish leaders in
Washington and New
York kept internation-
al phone busy trying to
convince friends in the
Israeli government that the
Clinton administration
meant business when it
insisted that Jerusalem sus-
pend its contacts with North
Korea.
Apparently the message
got through: on Monday,
Israel announced it would
end its contacts with
Pyongyang out of deference
-to American wishes.
In recent months, Israel
sought to cope with the
growing threat of North
Korean weapons sales to
Middle Eastern countries
hostile to the Jewish state
by developing a relationship
with the rouge North
Koreans.
Israeli officials were par-
ticularly worried by North
Korea's active nuclear
weapons program and its
apparent intention to sell
Rodong ballistic missiles to
Iran — missiles that can
carry nuclear or chemical
weapons.
But Washington has
taken a different tack; the
Clinton administration
hopes to force North Korea
to adhere to the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty by
increasing that country's
economic and political isola-
tion.
For several months, the
administration has quietly
warned Israel not to pursue
the nascent relationship.
Those warnings were under-
scored last week when
Deputy Foreign Minister
Yossi Beilin met with
Yossi Beilin
Deputy National Security
Adviser Samuel Berger.
"We believe that the
Israelis [were compelled to]
take considerable account of
what the administration is
saying," said Malcolm
Hoenlein, executive vice
president of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish
Organizations. "The govern-
ment in Washington feels
very strongly about this
issue."
However, halting Israel's
exploratory talks with
North Korea puts new pres-
sure on the White House to
get serious about stopping
the flow of advanced
weapons from North Korea
to countries like Iran .
"The administratibn has
clearly indicated that it
wants to take the lead in
dealing with the problem of
North Korea's arms
exports," said a leading
Washington Jewish activist.
"That means that they now
have even more of a respon-
sibility to take some effec-
tive action to deal with the
Koreans."
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U.S.-Israel Panel
Formed On Hi Tech
Remember the proposed U.S.-
Israeli high-tech commission
announced with much fanfare
after Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin's successful visit to
Washington in March?
The idea, heralded as a
model for a new economic
relationship between the
two countries in an era
when high levels of
American aid will be
increasingly difficult to sus-
tain, is finally getting off
the ground — slowly.
For several months, the
plan was slowed by a politi-
cal struggle in Jerusalem
over which ministry would
have jurisdiction over the
commission. In this country,
the plan was hobbled by the
administration's slowness in
filling top jobs at the