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...North Korea agreed to resume talks to end the 16-month nuclear standoff. The move should calm some fears about the new President, Kim Jong Il. He apparently intends to keep open the diplomatic lines to the West. No date for the talks has been announced...
...that talks over their nuclear program will happen soon. Today's funeral for lifetime leader Kim Il Sung was the last stage of mourning necessary for the meetings to resume, Lake said, and U.S. officials expect they'll soon be dealing with his son, the big-haired enigma, Kim Jong Il.ARGENTINA . . . WAS THE BOMB BLAST REVENGE? The blowing up of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires yesterday may have been retaliation for Israel's gains against Hizballah, the Iran-backed terrorist group, according to Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In June, Israel bombed Hizballah's training base in Lebanon...
...Also Rises: Kim Jong Il prepares to take charge...
With his high-heeled shoes and cumulus-cloud hairdo, Kim Jong Il displays a taste for the gaudy that is at odds with his country's spartan ways. He surrounds himself with the scions of his father's wartime comrades, a new generation of revolutionaries who call themselves the Loyal Warriors and whose cars carry license plates emblazoned with the Dear Leader's birth date. Mercurial and erratic, Kim Jong Il rarely meets foreign dignitaries. Defectors have told tales about his huge film collection, his penchant for Portuguese oranges and -- though he is reportedly married with two children -- a weakness...
...attack at age 82. The world's most durable communist leader, he had ruled his country since 1948. His death came just as U.S. and North Korean negotiators were meeting in Geneva to resume discussions over North Korea's nuclear program. Kim's heir apparent is his son Kim Jong Il, 53, known as "Dear Leader...