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...North, too, Marshal Kim Jong Il's decision to engage at this level with the South can surely not have been reached without considerable debate and probably dissent within the ruling circle. In that regard it is undoubtedly fortunate that Kim's father, the late Kim Il Sung, whose revered name and ideology still provides legitimacy for all policy, agreed in 1994 to a summit meeting with Kim Dae Jung's predecessor, Kim Young Sam. Although Kim Il Sung died before the summit could be held, he nevertheless left his crucial stamp of approval on the summit idea...
...dialogue but only to live up to the letter of the Agreed Framework in order to maximize aid from the United States. Some, particularly those from South Korea, even suggest that the wording of the agreement, which calls for a summit between "heads of state" without specifically naming Kim Jong Il and Kim Dae Jung, leaves open the possibility that the North intends to humiliate the South by producing in the end only its titular head of state, the President of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yongnam. To give the doubters their due, one must say that...
...Jung has finally succeeded in getting a date with the world's most resolute geopolitical wallflower, but don't expect a rapid thaw in the Cold War's most intractable conflict. Pyongyang and Seoul announced simultaneously on Monday that President Kim will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in the Northern capital in the first top-level summit between the two states since their creation five decades ago. Although the announcement was clearly timed to coincide with South Korea's midterm elections - in which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition for failure to produce results...
...there are odds to consider in the other direction. This thing is supposed to work on maybe two of some 30 known strains of anthrax, and even then only semi-reliably on so-called "aerosolized" anthrax, meaning the kind you inhale if Saddam or Kim Jong-Il does his thing. And don't think the bad guys don't have some idea of which strains we're protected against and which would tear our lungs out from the inside. The way I figure it, the odds of a weekend warrior like me getting gassed during my stay...
...shell. Senior State Department officials are surprised by how North Korea has begun to reach out to other countries over the past few months. Pyongyang recently established formal diplomatic ties with Italy, Brunei and the Philippines, and is discussing normalized relations with Japan and Australia. "Dear Leader" KIM JONG IL, who celebrated his 58th birthday last week by opening a consulate in Hong Kong, is even warming to the old enemy--he held a personal meeting last October with Hyundai executives from South Korea. According to U.S. diplomats, Kim finally realized that with his cold war benefactors gone...