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Relations between North Korea and the rest of the world - including its neighbor to the South - are beginning to look like a feedback loop. On Wednesday morning, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Jong Il announced that they will meet for three days of talks at the end of this month in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, just the second time in history that the leaders of the Koreas will have met. But it already seems like a pattern. Back in 2000, with much fanfare, Kim Jong Il met his South Korean counterpart in a historic North South...
...North and South will immediately begin lower-level meetings in advance of the summit. They will gather at the Kaesong Industrial park, just north of the demilitarized zone that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. The choice of site pays implicit homage to the June 2000 summit between Kim Jong Il and then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The Kaesong park - where South Korean light manufacturing plants employ North Korean workers - is one of the few lasting achievements to come out of that meeting. After Kim Dae Jung's term ended in year 2003, an investigation revealed that...
...presidential elections to be held in December. Opposition politicians noted that the summit takes place just one week after the GNP selects its candidate for the December election. "Rhetorical declarations of peace with North Korea don't amount to anything without concrete actions that resolve real problems," says Kim Yong-gap, a GNP member of the unification committee...
There is too much mistrust for anyone to answer that question unequivocally. But the cautious optimists on the U.S. side believe the step-by-step approach outlined in the Feb. 13 agreement may bear fruit beyond Yongbyon. Kim got desperately needed fuel oil in return for shutting the plutonium reactor, and there are more economic and diplomatic goodies in store if he completes the next steps of the deal he signed: outlining in detail what nuclear material his regime has--including a disputed uranium-enrichment program--and disposing...
That would be a huge national-security win for the Bush Administration, but it took more than U.S. pressure alone to bring about. The past two years, despite continuous assistance from China, have been grim for the North economically, and not even Kim wants to see a rerun of the famines of the '90s. Says a senior East Asian diplomat: "The Chinese have been telling him over and over that he can afford to liberalize the economy a bit and still maintain control but that he had to dismantle the nuclear program to reap any benefits whatsoever." Step 1--shutting...