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...President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with North Korea. And those clouds burst on Tuesday, as the North Koreans canceled a long-scheduled cabinet-level meeting with their South Korean counterparts to prepare for a planned visit by the communist state's "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, to Seoul in the spring. Although no reason was provided for the cancellation - and it could simply be another quirky rescheduling, as when the North Koreans postponed last year's historic visit to Pyongyang by a couple of days - the tenor of statements emanating from the North Korean capital suggested...
...stands to benefit both economically and strategically. Last year, shortly before his meeting with President Kim, the North Korean "Dear Leader" made a rare foreign trip, spending a week in consultation with Chinese leaders in Beijing. The Chinese are believed to have helped coax the diplomatically reclusive Kim Jong Il to pursue talks with South Korea and the West. And Korea watchers will watch closely to see whether the North Korean Kim heads for Beijing any time soon. After all, China is the closest thing North Korea has to a powerful friend...
...President Kim Dae Jung may have picked a bad week to come to Washington. Having suffered some highly visible setbacks on Iraq policy, the more hawkish elements of the Bush administration weren't about to start sending flowers to their favorite global bogeyman, North Korea's President Kim Jong Il. And so, despite Secretary of State Colin Powell's suggestion the previous day that the new administration may consider pursuing a dialogue with North Korea begun by the Clinton administration, President Bush Wednesday bluntly rejected his South Korean visitor's suggestion that the U.S. quickly resume talks with his reclusive...
...seemed to be decorated with a rainbow after the display of firecrackers." KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, Pyongyang's official wire service, effusively describing Mother Nature's gift to Kim Jong Il on his 59th birthday...
...import of cultural goods, which ?allowed Baik Soung Ook, president of Deshine.com, to buy the rights to seven animated films produced at Pyongyang's 425 Studio. "Everybody thinks these films must be tainted by ideology," says Baik. "Actually they are very educational." Some are obvious parables of Kim Jong Il's life, but one features an apolitical silver rabbit that Baik hopes to merchandise in South Korea. "My hope is that children in North and South Korea can share the same movies and cartoons," says Baik. "Then they will have something in common to help build a unified Korea." That...