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Like old-fashioned parents, Washington and Beijing both appear a little anxious about allowing the two Korean Kims to court unchaperoned. Then again, any misplaced remark or gesture could have disastrous consequences when South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung travels to Pyongyang on Monday for two days of talks with North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il - the first ever meeting between the leaders of two states divided not by a border but by a cease-fire line. President Clinton Thursday used the funeral of former Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi as an opportunity for intense huddling with...
Both Korean leaders must be praised for this effort. Since assuming office in 1998, President Kim Dae Jung has steadfastly pursued a bold and consistent "sunshine" policy of engagement with North Korea--despite considerable criticism from his political opponents...
...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...
...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 no one truly knows for sure what lies...
...have been mixed, so were the Soviet Union's to the United States in 1962 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. President John F. Kennedy '40, heeding his brother's advice, chose to respond to the more positive of two messages emanating from Moscow. President Kim Dae Jung in this case has wisely done the same, and we would all do well to follow his lead. As in 1962, the risks of optimism are low, the gains are high and the alternatives are too dreadful to contemplate...