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Another, smaller player is the rogue communist state of North Korea. Under the patronage of leader Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, animation is one of the rare sectors in which North Korea is following the global trend. Animation houses from North America, Europe and Asia have all subcontracted work there. The state-owned SEK Studio last year paired up with South Korean animators to produce Empress Chung, a $6.5 million animated feature film based on a Korean Cinderella story...
...Indeed, when Lee is inaugurated next month, he will assume office at a crucial time for the Korean peninsula. In October, outgoing South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun met in Pyongyang with Kim Jong Il, marking just the second inter-Korean summit ever. The North may also be on the brink of a historic peace agreement with the U.S. - one that President George W. Bush, in his last year in office, appears to want desperately in order to shore up his controversial foreign-policy legacy. A deal between Washington and Pyongyang - predicated on the North verifiably giving up its nuclear...
...cooperation is a victory for Roh, whose national political career will end when he leaves office next month. (South Korean Presidents under the constitution are limited to one five-year term.) In his first years in office, Roh was derided by many in Washington as an apologist for Kim Jong Il. Now, Bush has all but adopted the "Sunshine Policy" by promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program...
...also amends its Trading with the Enemy Act, which imposes sanctions on North Korean trade. And billions of dollars, not just from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea...
...advantages on offer at Kaesong, has persuaded Kim to increase his Kaesong production significantly in the coming months and hire an additional 370 North Korean workers before the end of the year. Still, he acknowledges that the success of his business may ultimately depend upon the decisions of Kim Jong Il's erratic government - and relying on Pyongyang has rarely proven to be a winning strategy in the past...