Opinion: Obama should test Iran's nuclear offer: What We're Reading Now
Oct 07, 2011

IRAN
Opinion: Obama should test Iran's nuclear offer
Graham Allison, Washington Post -- October 7, 2011
President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War. Obama can challenge President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to put his enriched uranium where his mouth is — by stopping all Iranian enrichment of uranium beyond the 5 percent level.

Cables Say Syria, Iran Illegally Moved Cash to North Korea
Thomas Catan, The Wall Street Journal -- October 7, 2011
As it sought to stop North Korea from spreading its nuclear technology, the U.S. uncovered signs in 2007 that the country was channeling funds through a major Middle Eastern bank based in Jordan, one of its closest regional allies, according to diplomatic cables posted online by document leaking website WikiLeaks.

NORTH KOREA
N.Korea could conduct third nuclear test: Seoul
AFP -- October 7, 2011
North Korea could conduct a third nuclear test or another missile launch before next year's US and South Korean presidential elections if disarmament talks fail, a senior Seoul official warned on Friday.

Special Report: Crisis grips North Korean rice bowl
Reuters -- October 7, 2011
In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.