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...CNN/YouTube debate last July, for example, Obama said he would meet with leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong Il without conditions in his first year as President, a promise one senior adviser admits was unplanned and unvetted by staff. Clinton pounced, declaring she would be more careful about whom she met--"I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes"--and later calling Obama's answer "irresponsible and frankly naive...
...stalled. North Korea had restarted its nuclear reactors and was not responding to calls to shut them down. Hill, only five months into his post, wanted to bring the North back to the table, but the Bush Administration had a policy of not meeting one-on-one with Kim Jong Il's government, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision...
...week, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and his new government started to lay the ground rules for future dialogue with the North. "North Korea is just trying to discipline the new unification minister [of South Korea]," says Professor Moon Jung In, at Yonsei University, referring to Kim Ha Jong, the South's key policy maker on the North. His agenda will presumably be a reflection of Lee's election platform, which took a harder line against Pyongyang than previous South Korean governments...
...would vote for a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution this week to look into Pyongyang's human rights abuses. Sohn Kwang Joo, an editor at the Daily NK, an online newspaper focusing on North Korea, is confident Lee will continue to press the North, but adds, "Kim Jong Il will react negatively...
...Maajong" (MARY-KATE, ASHLEY OLSEN and KIM JONG...