41.   It opens the way to resume a dialogue that American officials hope will eventually bring a lasting peace to the Korean peninsula.

42.   It will require mutual accommodation to prevent nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula and accommodation of Chinese interests in Sino-Pakistani security ties.

43.   Long-simmering crises in Iraq, Kashmir, the Korean peninsula or the Taiwan Strait could erupt suddenly and unpredictably.

44.   Military tension on the Korean peninsula often hurts the yen because Japan is so near the region.

45.   Military tension on the Korean peninsula often hurts the yen because Japan is geographically close to the region.

46.   More than anything, though, Clinton will pay homage to those Americans who gave the supreme sacrifice to help turn back communist aggression on the Korean peninsula.

47.   Meanwhile, traders today focused on news suggesting there is rising tension on the Korean peninsula as reasons to sell the yen.

48.   More important, it would risk an open breach with U.S. allies South Korea and Japan, which want both a stable and a non-nuclear Korean peninsula.

49.   Nor were the Chinese especially helpful about pressing the North Koreans into new four-party talks on the future of the Korean peninsula.

50.   North Korea requested a briefing to work out a permanent peace for the Korean peninsula as early as this month, a senior South Korean official said today.