Word: ils
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...smile campaign was in full bloom in North Korea, played out publicly with the help of CNN. A beaming and nodding Kim Il Sung was on view receiving former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on a "private visit" last week with all the ceremony and trappings appropriate to a serving head of state. More important -- since Kim knew that Carter was in touch with Washington -- they talked for six hours. Then Carter and Kim shared a hug reminiscent of the one Carter gave Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at the SALT II signing...
...other view is that Kim, an old-fashioned communist dictator, sees nuclear weapons as the ultimate insurance for the survival of his regime and / the succession of his son Kim Jong Il. If this is correct, Kim's repeated agreements to allow inspectors to work freely, and his subsequent refusals to live up to them, are part of a stalling game. His aim may be to string the West along until the end of the year, when he could have the plutonium for six or eight atom bombs -- which might be enough to deter attack or blackmail a neighbor...
With a friendship toast in Pyongyang, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter proved a serious intermediary between Washington and Kim Il Sung...
Responding to a proposal by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Young Sam, agreed to a summit meeting in order to resolve tensions over the North's suspected nuclear weapons program. If it comes off, the meeting would be the first of its kind since Korea split in two in 1945. The agreement came at the end of talks between Kim Il Sung and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; thanks to Carter's diplomacy, the North had already agreed not to expel international nuclear inspectors. But the Clinton Administration denied Carter's suggestion that...
...speeding toward Pusan. As the invaders tear through the countryside, Seoul's lightly armed reserve units would fall to North Korea's tanks and armored personnel carriers. Millions of panicked civilians clog the highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north. In four weeks, Kim Il Sung's troops would capture Pusan, erasing the mistake their predecessors made 44 years earlier, when Northern forces failed to reach the port before U.S. reinforcements arrived to drive them back across the 38th Parallel...