NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Clinton's struggles with North Korea continue 5 WASHINGTON — After a string of foreign policy setbacks from Bosnia to Somalia, President Clinton is struggling to defuse a tense showdown with communist North Korea with a package of incentives backed up by the threat of sanctions. Facing an unpredictable adversary with one of the world's largest armies is a great test for a president still getting his footing in foreign policy. "It's probably the most serious problem facing the country because of the possible consequences," said Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to former President Bush. While the United States emphasized that it wants a diplomatic solution, "If North Korea develops a nuclear device and we don't do anything about it, I think it is almost inevitable that we will soon see a nuclear Japan and maybe a nuclear South Korea," Scowcroft said. "Those are big developments. That kind of an Asia we don't want to have happen." ANALYSIS North Korea was talking tough. It says it will never yield to pressure and that it is prepared for war or sanctions. While pressuring North Korea to allow international inspections of its nuclear facilities, the United States is worried that pushing too hard might backfire, with the Pyongyang government pulling out of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Any conflict would put 37,000 American troops stationed in South Korea at risk. Clinton has offered North Korea a package of incentives to allow limited inspections, including financial aid and cancellation of U.S.-South Korean military exercises. But there is no sign that this strategy has worked. So far, there's been no official response — although with North Korea, back channel talks often are more important than public pronouncements. "I still think there's a chance that we can put them in a position where they can crawl back off this ledge they are on, and I certainly hope they will," Clinton said. Friday, December 3, 1993 Secretary of State Warren Christopher, at a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium, said that if North Korea continues to drag its feet, the next step would be to seek economic sanctions from the United Nations. Yet, Clinton said last week that sanctions are not a particularly attractive option. Leaders of Japan and China have warned Clinton that sanctions could boomerang, prompting North Korea to take an even harder line. "In the end, it seems there is little chance you can negotiate them out of this," said Eliot Cohen, director of strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "I think they are determined to go for some kind of nuclear program. The question is, can you coerce them out of this?" Extremists try to stop peace plan Extremists PLO leaflet urges uprising against Israel, agreement The Associated Press JERUSALEM — With 10 days to go before Israel is to start transferring power to the PLO in occupied lands, extremists on both sides tried yesterday to exploit recent violence to block the transfer. Under a key component of the peace accord Israel and the PLO signed 2 1/2 months ago, Israeli troops were to start pulling out of the occupied Gaza Strip and Jericho on the West Bank by Dec. 13. But bloody clashes that have escalated with the approach of that date have called the deadline into question. Yesterday, a PLO leaflet protesting the killings of Palestinian activists urged Palestinians to reignite their uprising against Israel. Thousands in the occupied Gaza Strip marched against the plan. Jewish settlers, meanwhile, outraged by the killing of two Israelis by Palestinian gunmen Wednesday, set up the first of dozens of planned mobile camps designed to entrench the Jewish presence in the territories. At a news conference in Bonn, Germany, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said it was unlikely Israel would start pulling out troops from Gaza and Jericho by the Dec. 13 deadline. However, he and the PLO denied an Israeli newspaper report that Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat had agreed to push back the deadline. The Palestine Liberation Organization said a delay in the pullout would endanger the peace process. Secretary of State Warren Christopher is due in Israel today at the start of a weeklong regional tour meant to revive the flagging peace process. Israel wants him to concentrate on larger issues such as its talks with Syria, but the Palestinians have urged him to intervene on details of the autonomy accord. The leaflet distributed by the Ramallah branch of the PLO's predominant Fatah faction said the recent killings of Palestinian activists were cause to rekindle the 6-year-old uprising against Israeli rule. "We won't be cheap targets for their bullets and settlers," the leaflet said "The stones and weapons can be laid aside only once there is a true, just and comprehensive peace." Hundreds of Jewish settlers, meanwhile, set tires on fire and disrupted morning rush-hour traffic throughout the West Bank to protest the killings of the two Israelis. After the accord was signed, Fatah had announced Israel was halting violence. However, protesters did not stone Palestinian motorists as they did after earlier bloodshed. But some were arrested after living in the road. Settlers from Alon Shvut, the home of one of the victims in the Gush Etzion bloc, seized 1 1/2 acres of land nearby and set up a mobile camp that they described as a precursor to a new outpost. 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