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Relations between North Korea and the rest of the world - including its neighbor to the South - are beginning to look like a feedback loop. On Wednesday morning, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Jong Il announced that they will meet for three days of talks at the end of this month in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, just the second time in history that the leaders of the Koreas will have met. But it already seems like a pattern. Back in 2000, with much fanfare, Kim Jong Il met his South Korean counterpart in a historic North South...
...South will immediately begin lower-level meetings in advance of the summit. They will gather at the Kaesong Industrial park, just north of the demilitarized zone that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. The choice of site pays implicit homage to the June 2000 summit between Kim Jong Il and then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The Kaesong park - where South Korean light manufacturing plants employ North Korean workers - is one of the few lasting achievements to come out of that meeting. After Kim Dae Jung's term ended in year 2003, an investigation revealed that his chief...
...director first cast Vitti, a little-known stage ingenue, as a voice double for another actress in the 1957 Il Grido. "We became friends," Antonioni later said. "Then things evolved. A relationship was born and a series of films." With a husky voice, a mop of blond hair and strong features that caught the camera's eye even when she wasn't center-screen, Vitti starred in five Antonioni pictures, instantly becoming their anguished or volatile face, their always human soul. She was so acute a revealer of depression, disappointment, despair, that it was a shock...
...July 15, the world found out that Kim Jong Il had done something surprising: he had kept his word. International nuclear inspectors confirmed that North Korea's flagship reactor in Yongbyon had been shut down, as Kim's regime had pledged to do in February. It was the first vow actually honored by Kim since 1994, when he cut his original nuclear deal with Bill Clinton. But the central question for the U.S. remains: Is this time really different...
...Third- and fourth-generation zainichi, meanwhile, have been far more inclined than their parents had been to intermarry or take Japanese citizenship, as official discrimination against them began to ease. "They believe they can succeed in Japanese society," says Kim Kyoo Il. "Their understanding is that they'll live here permanently." Given an aging, shrinking Japan's need for more immigrants - and the country's recent mania for things Korean - that's a safe assumption...