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...nukes. But Seoul said that it would push ahead with efforts to end the crisis peacefully, announcing that it would send high-level envoys to Pyongyang this week. South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-hyun said he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il after taking office next month. Other initiatives were still live as well, including a Russian proposal that would give North Korea a security guarantee and aid in exchange for abandoning its nuclear program. The U.S. still insists that it will offer no incentives to Pyongyang until the country has dismantled...
...This is not just one magazine's judgment. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan calls Kim "quick-witted." Outgoing South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 2000 summit with Kim Jong Il, praises him as a "man of insight." And the Dear Leader impressed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "very decisive and practical and serious...
...With his widely reported virtuoso skills on the Internet and his supposedly intimate knowledge of everything from South Korean politics to French wine, Kim Jong Il sounds like a brilliant villain straight out of a James Bond flick?and a nightmare opponent for the U.S. and its allies. There's just one thing wrong with all this buzz about Kim Jong Il's devilish cunning: it's belied by elementary and obvious fact. These days, he's merely using the playbook of his father, Kim Il Sung, from the previous nuclear confrontation in the early 1990s...
...Il Sung?North Korea's "eternal president," according to its constitution?has been dead for eight and a half years: he's no longer so good at thinking on his feet. Kim Jong Il, for his part, is alive and well but prone to egregious lapses of judgment, especially in a crunch. That is what makes the present crisis so very scary: not the high caliber of America's adversary, but precisely the opposite...
Frustrated negotiators dealing with North Korea can take comfort: one foreigner, at least, got what he wanted from Kim Jong Il's regime. And it only took 30 years...