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...Economic catastrophe, famine and the cozying up of its principal patrons - Moscow and Beijing - to South Korea left Dear Leader Kim Jong Il little choice but to make nice with President Kim Dae Jung. But it remains to be seen whether Kim's Chinese patrons have convinced him to emulate their "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (i.e., capitalism under Communist party dictatorship), or whether he's simply going through the motions to improve his geopolitical position and attract more aid. After all, the worst military confrontation between North and South since the 1953 cease-fire took place barely a year...
...anybody surprised that North Korea's "Dear Leader" has a sense of humor? After all, Kim Jong Il has signed off on official biographies that include achievements as diverse as hitting five bottles with a pistol in his left hand at 50 yards and writing six operas in two years (along with his steady output of more familiar tracts such as "Let Us Establish More Firmly the Monolithic Ideological System in the Whole Party and Society"). The leader of the hermetically sealed communist holdover had his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Dae Jung, in stitches Wednesday as he spoofed Western...
...South Koreans came away from their breakthrough summit in Pyongyang with a lot more than a newfound appreciation for the wit and wisdom of the Dear Leader. A four-point communique adopted early Thursday commits the two sides to promote economic, sports and cultural exchanges (including family reunions across the world's most militarized border), to hold ongoing government-to-government talks and, most important, to work toward eventual reunification. No mention was made of the more vexing questions, such as Seoul's concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs and Pyongyang's desire to see the backs...
...reunification. They're more likely to take incremental steps, over many years, rather than rush into a Germany-type scenario." Post-Cold War realignments that have seen both Russia and China abandoning their traditional hostility to Seoul and building ever-closer relations with South Korea have left the Dear Leader little choice but to make nice with the South. And, of course, it helps that Seoul's leader, President Kim Dae Jung, spent years in a South Korean prison for advocating such dissident ideas as democracy and reunification. But neither man, right now, has much reason to rush...
...reunions across that cease-fire line and economic aid from the prosperous South to the famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along the cease-fire line. Deep differences, in other words, may remain for some time, as Pyongyang makes its first, hesitant moves toward opening its doors to the world, ever fearful that such...