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...North Korea, bright floodlights shine all night on the monuments to Kim Jong Il and his family. But the rest of the energy-starved country is lucky to get a few hours of juice a day. So when South Korean Minister of Unification Chung Dong Young traveled to Pyongyang last month to outline a secret offer of massive energy aid, he seemed to have caught the Dear Leader's attention. If Kim scraps his nuclear weapons program, Chung told him, South Korea will provide 2 million kilowatts of electricity each year, nearly doubling the North's power supply. Making details...
...South Korean offer, and has promised security assurances to North Korea if it comes into compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and similar agreements with the U.S. and South Korea. U.S. President George W. Bush has also made a point of voicing less hostility to the Kim Jong Il regime of late...
...start of July, feels different. Alongside the tired ritual, there's some real politics going on. It's not just the politics of protest, for which the G-8 became infamous four years ago during riots in Genoa, forcing levels of security that would make Kim Jong Il blush. There will be protest, possibly flamboyant. The rock singer Bob Geldof has called for a million people to make their way to Edinburgh to campaign for Africa's poor. He even wants another Dunkirk of small boats to ferry activists across the English Channel; much better TV than taking Ryanair. Geldof...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hinted last Friday that he might be willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks in July, provided that the U.S. demonstrates it no longer "looks down on" the North and is willing to "recognize and respect us as a partner." But U.S. President George W. Bush has stated in the past that he "loathes" Kim, and he risked angering the Dear Leader again last week by hosting a politically sensitive guest at the White House: Kang Chol Hwan, author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a first-person account of growing up inside...
...have a date," said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As for Bush, he seems heedless of any need to keep Kim sweet. According to Bush aides who sat in on the meeting, the President had Kang autograph a copy of his memoir, then asked, "If Kim Jong Il knew I met you, don't you think he'd hate this?'' Kang, Bush aides later said, smiled and replied: "The people in the concentration camps will applaud...