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TIME: Why are you going to China and South Korea? What have you learned so far about the summit last week between South Korean president Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il...
...important to have more talks with the South Koreans on the North-South summit. According to the descriptions of this summit, [Kim Jong Il] is quite different from what we thought. Rather than being standoffish or secretive or opaque, he apparently was very jovial and friendly and knowledgeable about various issues in South Korea as well as generally. People were surprised. He enjoyed showing that he was different from what people thought he was. I think that he is reaching out. We are very pleased that the summit took place. So I need to assess it. We're all fascinated...
...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...
...notoriously reclusive head of a notoriously closed communist state, but Kim Jong Il appears to have studied the Ronald Reagan image-management playbook. North Korea's secretive strongman shocked his guests and most observers Tuesday by not only showing up at the airport, but greeting South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung with a winning smile and a two-handed handshake - the Korean cultural equivalent of a hug. By opening the historic first-ever visit by a leader of one Korea to the other with that telegenic gesture, the Dear Leader has given Koreans on both sides...