WASHINGTON WikiLe-aks released 250,000 diplomatic cables to The
New York Times on Sunday det-ailing the candid conversations between
Washington and embassies around the world.
The documents show that Chinese government operatives have waged a
coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting US and its allies.
Some of the cables, made available to The Times were written in February
2010.
Gaming out an eventual collapse of North Korea: American and South
Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea,
should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the
state to implode. The South Koreans even considered commercial
inducements to China, according to the American ambassador to Seoul. She
told Washington in February that South Koreans believe that the right
business deals would ‘help salve’ China’s “concerns about living with a
reunified Korea” that is in a ‘benign alliance’ with US.
Bargaining to empty the Gitmo prison: When American diplomats pressed
other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a
State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to
take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while
Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in a
group of detainees.
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