Last week we covereddivergences of opinion between Pyongyang and Tehran in cases such the Palestine liberation movement, Chechnya and the U.S. campaign against al-Qaeda after 9/11. In the conflict between the Somalian Islamic Courts Union (or ICU for short, a group the U.S. accused of harboring al-Qaeda terrorists) and the Ethiopian government, North Korean and Iranian interests diverged once again, but the other way around. This time, it was the Workers’ Party of Korea leaders who found themselves on the same side as the United States, while Iran showed increasing sympathy for the forces that Washington confronted in the