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...resume has "Nobel" stamped all over it. He was jailed by military dictatorships, and assassins once tried to run him down with a car. After being elected President in 1998, he embarked on a policy of engagement with his unpredictable neighbor, culminating with Kim and North Korea's KIM JONG IL shaking hands last June. But the President's critics think South Korea's Kim has given a lot--money, mostly--in exchange for very little: handshakes, Olympians walking side by side and too few meetings between aging relatives divided by the DMZ. There has been no progress in what...
...North Korea has lately been sending signals that it might not cooperate with that prediction. During his July 19 visit to Pyongyang, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that strongman Kim Jong Il had told him North Korea would shelve its intercontinental ballistic missile program if other countries would launch several of its satellites at their expense. Washington was skeptical. Was Kim making the offer? Or was this an offer Putin hoped he would make so Moscow could derail the U.S. missile defense plan, which it opposes...
...Russia's President Vladimir Putin is proving adept at outflanking Washington in the diplomatic battle over the scheme. And that should sound a warning to the next U.S. president that the free ride from Russia is over. Putin visited Pyongyang Wednesday, and got North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il to agree to scrap his missile program in exchange for help with civilian space exploration. The specifics of the plan - which include the somewhat unlikely scenario of the U.S. supplying North Korea with a civilian rocket program - are less important than the overall picture. Washington insisted it needed...
...JONG IL Elusive North Korean holds hug-filled, teary summit with South. You been watching Oprah...
...other hand, the custom of treating succession as a birthright obviously goes way beyond countries that actually label themselves monarchies. The other ruler-by-inheritance in the news lately is Kim Jong Il of North Korea. He didn't have to go through any of that nonsense either...