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Last week President Bush blew a few dark clouds over President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with North Korea. And those clouds burst on Tuesday, as the North Koreans canceled a long-scheduled cabinet-level meeting with their South Korean counterparts to prepare for a planned visit by the communist state's "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, to Seoul in the spring. Although no reason was provided for the cancellation - and it could simply be another quirky rescheduling, as when the North Koreans postponed last year's historic visit to Pyongyang by a couple of days...
...That's how the President speaks," a White House spokesman told the New York Times last week, in a somewhat lame attempt to explain why George W. Bush hadn't meant what he'd said about North Korea. Asked to explain his rejection of South Korean president Kim Dae Jung's recommendation that Washington urgently pursue President Clinton's efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea's missile program, Bush told reporters, "We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping all terms of all agreements...
...surprising that the hawks on the Bush team are not much moved by Kim's "Sunshine Policy." Many Bush people served in Republican administrations that backed the authoritarian South Korean regimes that kept Kim Dae Jung imprisoned for his political beliefs, and they're unlikely to be comfortable with the same Kim Dae Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while...
...stations say they are the victims of vaguely worded obscenity laws. "If there was a clear guideline, we'd follow it," says Yoo Jung Rae, an Enterchannel manager. "We're businessmen, not criminals." Even police concede Korean sites aren't exactly racy by international standards, but they say they can't move ahead of community standards...
South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung may have picked a bad week to come to Washington. Having suffered some highly visible setbacks on Iraq policy, the more hawkish elements of the Bush administration weren't about to start sending flowers to their favorite global bogeyman, North Korea's President Kim Jong Il. And so, despite Secretary of State Colin Powell's suggestion the previous day that the new administration may consider pursuing a dialogue with North Korea begun by the Clinton administration, President Bush Wednesday bluntly rejected his South Korean visitor's suggestion that the U.S. quickly resume talks...