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...group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better Burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." CHRIS PATTEN, former Hong Kong Governor and E.U. Commissioner for External Affairs, recounting a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il in his new book, Not Quite the Diplomat. Patten also dished on other world leaders, saying that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was "not a democrat" and calling French President Jacques Chirac "ignorantly hostile to reform...
...Third, the chances of the North Korean regime surrendering its nuclear-weapon capabilities or of inspectors ferreting them all out are virtually nil. Kim Jong Il is unlikely to stay in power by dint of his popularity at home or abroad. Having atomic bombs, though, helps. Why, then, did Kim commit to give them up last week? He knows what we don't know about his nuclear program and is banking on us not learning much...
...Meetings Must Continue It is gratifying to note that the private discussions between the U.S. and North Korea about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program [Aug. 8] actually took place and seemed to indicate that the Bush Administration is, after all, willing to deal directly with Kim Jong Il's recalcitrant regime. That is a valuable and significant move toward world peace. But can one expect honest dealings from a despotic nation that persists in saying what it does not mean and meaning what it does not say? Putting aside the lack of candor, such contact (even if it doesn...
...leadership. As a result the book reads as a series of sharply observed and funny/scary anecdotes on the life of a foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still-in-charge father Kim Il-Sung. They appear in every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes...
...grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong...