That may make this seem like exactly the wrong time for diplomatic overtures to Pyongyang.
Opening approaches made to secure acquaintance, favor, or an agreement; overtures.
If Mr Bush continues to instruct Israel to rebuff Mr Assad's overtures, Mr Olmert will no doubt obey orders.
But his fears about India are also deeply rooted in a Pakistani military mindset that will require major Indian overtures before it changes.
As a matter of fact, he had already made overtures to his Japanese friend, but the latter's terms had been so harsh that he had been driven to consider trying the Yi Chung Trust Company.
The enemy is making overtures for peace.
Clyde, of course, was insincere in regard to all his overtures at this time.
The author valuably describes how propagandists depict diplomatic overtures by South Korea and America as quaking capitulations.
BDP circles echo the PKK's line that Mr Erdogan's overtures were no more than window-dressing aimed at winning Kurdish votes in next year's general election.
F. Draw out overtures for discussion in inaugural meeting.
Ewen MacAskill learns Clinton has accepted her former rival's overtures to take the top foreign policy position.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - the foreign minister of Pakistan said Monday that Iran had no justification to pursue nuclear weapons and urged the neighboring country to embrace overtures from the United States.
Each time, the doubters say, Mr Obama’s delicate overtures are met with ambiguity or contempt.
But despite those intriguing overtures and the fact he knew Yao would be out at least this season, Ariza joined a team that will do well to simply make the playoffs.
A religion writer whose books include Walking the Bible and Where God Was Born, Feiler also found he had mixed responses to well-wishers' spiritual overtures.
A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures;a flirt.
Soon afterwards Switzerland’s Roche decided to abandon its previously friendly overtures toward Genentech, a Californian biotechnology pioneer, in favour of a hostile takeover bid.
